A year has passsed - A new will start
Island mating station Tunø in the fading winter light.
Så er det lige før at jeg kan se ende på slyngning af sommerhonningen.
Ikke nogen positiv sæson for hverken honning eller dronningproduktionen. Vejret har, indtil sidst i juli, ganske enkelt bare været elendigt her oppe nordpå.
Lyngtrækket ser derimod ganske godt ud. Gad vide hvornår vi bliver færdig med at slynge den så? 🤔
Queen season is coming to an end and today the last queens bound for island mating will be packed in their matting boxes.
It takes a lot of young bees to do all the mating boxes 🐝🐝🐝🐝
The production of nucleus colonies has started.
6 frame colonies started on 1½ frame of brood, a storage frame and some extra bees.
Queen introduced a ripe queen cell.
When the queen breeder himself goes to the island, someone else has to do the hard jobs 😁
Premier day for the queen production. First grafting is done in perfect weather conditions, and the cell builders seem to be ready.
Let's hope for a flying start 🐝🌞
A week ago it was hard to believe, that both the bees and us would be ready to start up the queen production at the usual date, 15th May,.
But now it seems like both humans and bees are starting to believe in things again ☺️
Trimming of the finisher cellbuilders is progressing well.
I want to get out!
I want more space!
6 frame Dadant isn't enough for much longer 🙂
It's about time to get the droneproviders ready, if we want fertile drone by 1st June, as it takes 40 days from the drone egg is laid, till the hatched drone is fertile - the clock is ticking.....🐝
Using the fairly gentle afternoon weather for inspection and preparing the drone colonies for our island Tunø is a nice job. Especially if you can find one of the really sheltered apiaries for your lunch breaks 😎