ANYBODY HAS A FALL HONEY FLOW GOING ON NOW.MY GIRLS ARE BOOMING NOW .BRING IN LOTS OF NECTOR FROM FLOWERS I DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT IT IS.I HAVE ACRES AND ACRES OF THIS .OTHER PLANTS THEY ARE WORKING IS WHAT I CALL BLOOD WEED,BUTTON WOOD,ALLIGATOR GRASS.THE GOLDED RODS ARE ABOUT TWO TO THREE WEEKS AWAY FROM BLOOMING. ...SCHAWEE
The goldenrod has been going for about three weeks here and seems to be a really strong flow this year. We have several species here and can usually expect 2 months bloom out of it. The chinaberry trees are all starting to open too and brazillian pepper is about to bust! I'm thinking this will be a great honey making fall!
Scott
Mostly goldenrod and some purple tick trefoil (beggars lice). I have noticed that around my hives now smells alot like a nasty locker room so the goldenrod must be going strong.
I was told Brazilian pepper in My area but I'm sure all the rest HW said he's straight across the state
also Schawee I was wondering about you guys do you have the B Pepper They suck other than for the bees
Tommyt
so, it's the goldenrod that smells like that ? they've been on the goldenrod for almost a month now and i can smell my hive from 50 feet away. no wonder bears and skunks can find them so easy.
Yeah so the golden rod is going good here and the Asters just come on strong. Girls are on a major flow so long as its warm enough for them to work it. I say GIRLS WORK IT!!!!
Schawee,
2 hours North of ya, the Goldenrod busted open here this last Monday /Tuesday. The girls are all over it but its so dry there dont seem to be much nectar yet. No signs of that awful / wonderful smell yet. Hopefully we will get a littel rain this weekend and it will start pumping out some nectar.
Mike
PS...Cudos my friend.......I thought I was the craziest guy on here for climbing towers for a livin till I saw you trying to pinch the tails off those little lizards. :-D
Goldenrod and asters right now. Not much else is left. The severe lack of rain has limited the fall flow. I usually have taken off the goldenrod honey by know but they are still working on the supers. It has been 34 days since the last rain.
I will pull the supers in a week or so and get them ready for winter.
I have noticed the goldenrod yellowing up this week on the sides of the road here. But we really have not gotten any measurable rain this month yet. Maybe this weekend we will get some rain. I planted oats and rye 3 weeks ago and we did not get that rain. But it is nice to see a little yellow coming in. Well, the bee pollen is white this week.
No nectar this fall here. Too hot and dry this summer. Bees ate what they had, and had no nectar to replace it. Hives were pretty much empty two weeks ago. I am feeding them just to make sure they build up enough to make it through the winter. Had a good spring flow, though!
We have a good flow going here, of syrup... :-\ It's been so dry, not much blooming, so I've been building them up for winter myself. They really like not having to work for food, too. They suck it down as fast as I can fill the feeders. I may need to start my own sugar refinery soon.
Finally. We are going to get some rain this month.
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"HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
441 AM EDT SAT SEP 25 2010
...HEAVY RAIN LIKELY ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SUNDAY THROUGH
MONDAY...
A COLD FRONT WILL SETTLE INTO NORTH GEORGIA TOADY AND BECOME
STATIONARY. BY SUNDAY...AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL FORM ALONG THE
STALLED FRONT OVER MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA AND MOVE SLOWLY NORTH AND
EAST ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY. THIS LOW WILL SPREAD DEEP GULF
MOISTURE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA WITH AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF
MODERATE RAINFALL EXPECTED.
WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER NORTH
AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...WITH AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS
OF EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH MONDAY. THESE AMOUNTS
MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING ON SOME CREEKS AND RIVERS. FLASH FLOODING OF
SMALLER CREEKS IN THE MOUNTAINOUS AND URBAN AREAS OF NORTH GEORGIA
WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DEPENDING ON HEAVY RAINFALL RATES AND DURATION."
Finally, my starving bees have nectar. The entire summer has been a bust, I've only just stopped feeding 2 weeks ago. Forcing the girls to work. Goldenrod has been in bloom for a few weeks, and just yesterday I experienced the smell. Went into both hives today--my small hive still has barely any nectar, the bottom medium is empty, the top has brood and some nectar. The larger hive has a lot of nectar, a lot of capped brood, not much capped honey yet. I still have to check my pictures to see if I was looking at eggs, that would be a bummer.
On a side note, last week I found lots of wax moths and larvae between the screen and bottom board. I had a bad setup where there was dead space in there that the bees couldn't access--I was in the process of changing this setup when I found the wax moths in my strong hive. Other than one small hole in undrawn foundation on the last frame, no sign of wax moths inside the hive. Today, I pulled everything apart and still no sign of a problem. Anything else I should do? I changed out the screens so I could scrub the bad one. Can I now store this in my basement?