Bees, Beehive & Flowers Design 1898 Suze Fokker
#Beehive, #Bees, #Flowers, #Green, #Symmetrical, #White, #Yellow
Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed
Prints, T-Shirts, Stickers, & More by @rocketshipretro via RedBubble → https://bigplanetprints.com/go/FLL18O
A short video of the bees bringing in the pollen today. Lots and lots of pollen.
Barely warm enough for the bees to be out but they've found some pink and cream colored pollen somewhere show here in the video. I also saw some sorta bright red pollen too.
The video is half speed.
Beehives are like chickens, they keep multiplying. This was actually cheaper than the previous 3 hives. First one I got was a Bee Castle then I got 2 non-branded ones that are the same exact parts, and now another Bee Castle. Like the first bee castle this one has stinky deep foundation but not as bad even though those have been sitting around for 2 years now. I was expecting that and will get more Acorn foundation if needed.
Put a feeder on my Center hive yesterday with 2:1 syrup. Less than 20 hours and more than a third appears to be gone. This was the high population hive that felt light. Consecutive rainy days forecast and not much to forage on.
The hazels have pollen today and it warmed up enough for the bees to find it.
Bees are bringing in dark yellow pollen today. No hazel pollen and the bees are done with the snowdrops so I'm not sure what they're finding. Tallest daffodil in the warmest spot here is only a few inches sprouted up. Maybe so other kind of early blooming tree around. Whatever it is the bees like it.
This is the "East hive" that has the old queen from the almost 2 years ago swarm. The upper deep box was still heavy so they have plenty of food. No moisture issues from this hive or the "West hive" and it had adequate weight also.
Checked the hives today to verify they had enough food. This is the 'Center hive' and the quilt box was very wet and had a little mold starting to grow in it. I took all the pine shavings out and wiped it down with some tea tree oil soap after I was done checking them. Lots of bees in this hive and I might have to feed it if the weather turns cool or rainy.
My center hive always has bees landing on me when I'm taking photos, which is only significant because it consistently was the one that I'd get stung by last year.
A warm sunny day and all 3 hives are active but I don't think there's much out here for them to forage on.
Some slow bees to enjoy at 25% speed.
This is the West hive today. I've seen each of the 3 hives busy now so I think they made it through the winter ok so I'll just have to see how much food they have left one of these days while it's sort of warm. Cooler and wet weather coming they say.
The East hive which hasn't shown much activity finally decided to do some flights when it warmed up some more and the wind calmed down this afternoon. This is the (likely) original queen I rescued after the split kicked her out or she tried to swarm and I put her in an empty box with one frame of bees. It was the smallest hive going into winter but they had almost two full deeps of food for the winter.
The center bee hive got really busy today for probably less than 30 minutes. It was 50F / 10C when they were flying but the wind was coming up.
Lots of bee poo being deposited on everything including me.
#NewZealand: Minister won't meet with Council of Trade #Unions, country’s largest democratic organisation. "she doesn’t want to hear our view, she has a different view – pro-employer and anti-worker"
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/17/the-beehive-doors-are-shut-to-the-ctu/
