Please join us if you can for the first Apiary Day of the season. At the\u00a0 Association apiary at Plas Tan y Bwlch, 2pm, Saturday 30th April.\u00a0 Meet in the lower car park.
We have six colonies at the apiary and will be looking at all of them.\u00a0 Most\u00a0 have been taking advantage of the recent fine weather and are well advanced for the time of year.\u00a0
Our plans for Saturday include: doing a Shook Swarm on one colony which has very dirty old combs and we want to change the hive type;splitting a very strong colony before it prepares to swarm in order to produce some nuclei;checking the varroa drop from all colonies and applying a formic acid treatment if any colonies need it.
Attached is an article about the Shook Swarm technique which Paul wrote for another Association a couple of years ago.\u00a0 Have a look at it and if you think it’s something you might like to try on one of your own colonies then join\u00a0that group on Saturday for a demonstration.
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