CloverKnollFarms
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Exactly. It usually requires intensive sugar feeding.
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Exactly. It usually requires intensive sugar feeding.
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LittleBittyBigJohn
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It's more about availability of resources than time. Generally if you aren't seeing lots of wildflowers then there is not a nectar flow for them to be able to forage. There is a fall bloom of goldenrod to help them top off for winter but late June through September is pretty hard on them.
There are not many swarms during the dearth for that reason.
CloverKnollFarms
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Bees are starting to hit the buckwheat field. This is my favorite time of year!
CloverKnollFarms
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Inspecting all 16 hives this week. This one is in a beautiful spot
CloverKnollFarms
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Broke down 8 more sheets of plywood for hives. 90F isn't my favorite temperature to work in, but I dont have time to wait for cooler weather.
Set up a nice little cross cutting table for making square cuts fast and precise with the new Hercules cordless circular saw. Also using a fine finish Bauer blade... Wow these are the prettiest cuts I've ever made!
Also, Menards BCX looks like ACX... It's beautiful
Set up a nice little cross cutting table for making square cuts fast and precise with the new Hercules cordless circular saw. Also using a fine finish Bauer blade... Wow these are the prettiest cuts I've ever made!
Also, Menards BCX looks like ACX... It's beautiful
ponytug
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Nice! Any photos of your cross cut sled? Crosscutting sheets exactly always seems to be a challenge for me.
All the best, Peter
CloverKnollFarms
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Not a sled, a jig on a table. No photos at the moment
I didn't expect getting into bees to make me pay closer attention to what's growing and blooming, but alas here we are
. At the end of our private drive/street I've discovered we have a number of large mimosa trees. They're invasive, but supposedly a good source of nectar so I'm hoping my ladies have found them.They appear to have given up on our cucumber and tomatillo flowers in the garden, though the bumble bees still seem to love them. And only ever saw one or two on our lavender bushes out front, but again 10-20 bumble bees. I wonder - do the bumbles bully them off?
CloverKnollFarms
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I didn't expect getting into bees to make me pay closer attention to what's growing and blooming, but alas here we are
They appear to have given up on our cucumber and tomatillo flowers in the garden, though the bumble bees still seem to love them. And only ever saw one or two on our lavender bushes out front, but again 10-20 bumble bees. I wonder - do the bumbles bully them off?
Honey bees will gravitate toward the most nutritional food source available. So, they will forage on different plants at different times, solely because of what is more nutritional. Some months they are not interested in clover at all, others, they are flocking to it.
I'll see bumbles, honey bees, wasps, all feeding together on the buckwheat.
CloverKnollFarms
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So this is the MDF slab I use to rip the sheets. I have two pieces of wood as a strait edge screwed into the edge. I then just clamp a 6' aluminum box level to it... Square it with a digital angle finder. Then I can slide strips of plywood under it, measure, cross cut, cross cut, cross cut... Everything square with very little effort
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