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Bees need water. At our @hinterlandbees home apiary, we have a faucet that is on a constant drip so that water is readily available to our bees all year round.
Even on a cool autumn afternoon, these bees are busy collecting water to take back to the hive.
They use the water to regulate the temperature inside the hive by spreading it on the walls and inside the cells and fanning with their wings.
They also use water to regulate the humidity inside the brood cells which needs to be 90-95% for hatching success.
If honey crystalises, then bees use water to dilute that it for consumption and they even dilute runny honey to about 50% moisture before eating it.
A beehive needs about a cup of water a day, and while bees can get a lot of this water from the nectar they collect, however, this is not always available to them which is why every apiary site should have a good water supply nearby.
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Fancy some warm honey crushed straight from the comb? Turn on the to be slightly mesmerised .
If we get natural comb @hinterlandbees we can use our honey press to extract it.
We’ll show you the full process in our next post
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Here's a demonstration of how docile a swarm can be. This swarm originated from our home apiary @hinterlandbees. With some rain on the way, I needed to get the bees inside the box asap so resorted to scooping them by hand.
SEE THE FULL VIDEO VIA THE LINK IN BIO ↖
If I'm very gently, it is possible to handle them this way without too much risk of getting stung. Bees in this situation will only sting if they get squashed or squeezed too hard; therefore, working nice and slowly is imperative.
A swarm is usually about half the population of the hive from where it originated. When the original colony decides to swarm, they produce new queen cells. Shortly after the first queen cell is capped over, the old queen leaves the hive with roughly half of her daughters to start a new hive elsewhere.
Because the population of the original colony can vary greatly, the population of a swarm can range from a few thousand bees to 30,000 bees or more. Those numbers relate to reproductive swarms; however, if a colony is forced to abandon their nest, that's when swarms can consist of more than 50,000 bees, enough to darken the sky.
https://hinterlandbees.com/videos#/how-to-catch-a-swarm-of-bees
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