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RE: Friday, April 29, 2022 - Man From Ironbark - 04-30-2022
I only have the one hive in the yard at present and being autumn heading towards winter and this hive is one I cut out of an orange orchard tree, requiring the use of tractor fitted with forklift. It had no honey, no brood and it is late in the season. so I wished to feed it. The feeder worked well. Fitting two buckets together creating a vacuum but it only attracted the bees from other hives down the road. I am largely iin partnership these days with a younger man who owns the citrus orchard on the local sand dune. so I drove the tractor while he cut the hive out of the tree. He has the rest of my hives at the farm which is as the crow flies, roughly half a kilometre from ground zero here.
Since then, the in-hive feeder arrived in the mail. That fitted, keeps all the food in the hive. The next problem is ants. I put dishes of water under the legs.
The black bit is the feeder.
RE: Friday, April 29, 2022 - Dreamin - 05-01-2022
Interesting hive....I have concrete blocks under my hive, so if I get ants, not sure what I can do about it. I see a bunch of brown stuff outside the door of my hive, guess they are cleaning house!