Before we can extract the honey we first have to remove bees fro the supers, in the past we have shaken and brushed the bees off. This year we are trying out our new bit of kit namely the hand held leaf blower. It's run off a portable generator at 110volts and generates enough wind to remove most if not all the bees from the comb, it take about a quarter of the time of the old method and involves only one trip to the site.
The bees are blown into an empty box under the honey super and once clear the bees are shaken back into the hive.
Because of the poor foraging weather we are feeding as soon as supers are removed to avoid starving in the colonies which have lots of bees but no honey supers.
we` have just taken delivery of 1 tonne of ready mixed Apinvert syrup which will save considerable time in mixing feed.
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