Episode 2022.07: Easter Swarm (Part 6) - 1 Month After Swarm - Laying Queens, Varroa and a Surprise!

Episode 2022.07: Easter Swarm (Part 6) - 1 Month After Swarm - Laying Queens, Varroa and a Surprise!
Time of Year: 15 May 2022
Temperature: 19 Degrees Celsius / 66 Degrees Fahrenheit
Weather: Cloudy and Rain – Sunny Spells Again

Welcome to our Home Honey Bee Apiary / Bee Yard Channel. This is our seventh video of our second Season (2022), which we hope will be interesting and invite you to journey with us by Subscribing to this, our Beekeeping Story as our family share our experiences – good and not-so-good. We plan to upload new videos for you to watch on a regular basis, as we share with you our experience and on occasion reviews of our Beekeeping and related experiences, as well as our Family Home Apiary/Bee Yard, here in beautiful Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Our beekeeping is based on using Long Hives, rather than the more common box hives stacked on top of one another. Just our choice and the bees are in our Home Apiary/Bee Yard, so will never be a large concern. We also aim to harvest Pure Natural ‘Raw’ Flow Honey and Comb Honey.
We plan to explore new and emerging - tools, equipment, frames and even the ‘hives’ themselves, which may provide a spark of interest.

This Episode (2022.07), we inspect the Colonies for only the second time, however not everything goes to plan, and we have a surprise and consider options for one of the colonies. Do watch to find out.
Watch to see how the colonies are doing and is there any sign of laying Queens? This is exactly a month after the Easter Swarm.
We treat for Varoa too.
Need to check whether the comb is being drawn on the new frames provided and are the bee numbers strong enough.
The Spring Nectar Flow is still under way, yet drawing to an end, with lots of pollen being brought in – good for brood production at this time of year – once the colonies are ‘Queen Right’.
Queens, Hive Health and Varoa Treatment
Ethos
Our ethos is to use sustainable approaches where practical, that includes hives made from UK wood, supporting UK producers from beginning to end.

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Attributes:
- Music by Michael Ramir

Graphics – Queen Rearing Stages
- serendipi-bee.ca

Comparison - Apitraz vs Apivar
- Hiveworld Limited (New Zealand) (New Zealand)

Please do watch our previous and upcoming videos on this Channel to discover more about our hives, the bees and our journey in our Home Apiary / Bee Yard. We appreciate your leaving comments and suggestions.

For further connected sites:
www.NaturalRawHoneyBees.co.uk
www.AbreyPrivateClients.com
Hives made by: www.hydehives.co.uk
Foundation from: BuzzBee

Polite Request from Us
We wanted to share our experience and approach to beekeeping as a family, and you will note straight away that we are open to trying 'new things' - some may not work and others you may not agree with.
We ask that you offer advice and comments - please do feel free to challenge us and provide counter suggestions/recommendations as this will allow others (and us!) to learn and consider alternatives.
We ask that in the manor we produce these videos, for both entertainment and education, we ask that you consider language and tone of any comments left as we hope people of all ages, ethos and beliefs may read them.

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