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  • share the funny, scary & the completely stupid things you've seen & heard
share the funny, scary & the completely stupid things you've seen & heard
 #3778  by JohnB
 25 Jun 2019, 22:50
Caught a cast swarm recently and put them in a poly nuc. Decided to feed them after a few days with a top feeder - all fine. After an inspection last Saturday put the feeder back on BUT with the plastic "crown board" in place between the feeder and the brood box. A whole host of bees trapped in the feeder and no food for the bees in the brood box. We learn by our mistakes - hopefully.
 #3779  by Chrisbarlow
 25 Jun 2019, 23:00
we all make mistakes JB. we live and we hopefully learn. I suspect we have all made mistakes in beekeeping where afterwards we thought. erm... thats annoying
 #3784  by Patrick
 26 Jun 2019, 09:12
Very true Chris. And often quite upsetting seeing a host of dead bees.

At the risk of sounding blase, which I am not, it is worth remembering at such times that for every day the queen lays a thousand eggs, a few weeks later a similar number of adult bees will daily perish from natural causes, but we do not see them.

Just to keep in perspective.