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Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 07 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jo the course sounds really good, it is very absorbing this bee stuff.

Well Tim collected the nuc as planned last night and sited it in the field on a hive stand. This morning we've briefly been up to the field just to make sure they look ok in the daylight (without opening the hive ) and all looks well. Tomorrow we plan to move the frames in to our actual hive. Our first thing to be done as bee-keepers (and first thing we'll do on our own i.e without an instructor to ask things of).

I'll stick some photos on the blog when we're done.

Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 07 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

frames successfully moved in to hive (and queen spotted)

alison
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 07 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Well done. Did you mark her?

I still haven't found mine, although I see her work frequently, so am not unduly worried.

Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 07 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

our bee supplier had marked her and clipped her as well, so we don't have to do that this time.

Hang on - photo found


actually we were concentrating transfering the frames so although we knew 90% of the bees were out of the nuc and none of the remaining ones were the queen we hadn't actually spotted her as we did the job. It was only afterwards at home, looking through the couple of quick photos that Tim had taken at the time, that she was spotted. So the above is a zoom in on one of those shots.

alison
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 07 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Excellent.

jamanda
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 07 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Have you given her a name?

Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 07 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Rhiannon. Its after the celtic legend of Rhiannon and the White Horse, as the White Horse at Uffington is a local landmark.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 07 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:
Rhiannon. Its after the celtic legend of Rhiannon and the White Horse, as the White Horse at Uffington is a local landmark.


Good choice.

wellington womble



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 07 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:
Rhiannon. Its after the celtic legend of Rhiannon and the White Horse, as the White Horse at Uffington is a local landmark.


and the rest of them are called?

woodsprite



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 07 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

They're looking great!
Fingers firmly crossed, we may be picking our bees up at the weekend!!!!!

Cathryn



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 07 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've just been told to get real - so where do I order them from

Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 07 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

wellington womble wrote:
Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:
Rhiannon. Its after the celtic legend of Rhiannon and the White Horse, as the White Horse at Uffington is a local landmark.


and the rest of them are called?


Fiddlesticks Honey Co-operative - or The Girls

Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 07 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ruby wrote:
I've just been told to get real - so where do I order them from


really want to know? Your local beekeeping association probably has members that will sell you some or a local beekeeper (which is how we're getting our 2nd lot) or Thornes sell bees ('spect other suppliers do too) or we got ours from www.thehivehoneyshop.co.uk as thats the guy that we did our course with.

Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 07 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

woodsprite wrote:
They're looking great!
Fingers firmly crossed, we may be picking our bees up at the weekend!!!!!


its exciting isn't it?

Cathryn



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 07 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thank you - will remember this - he did say something similar to hens horses dogs...

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