How about this for a July flow.

asprince · July 11, 2012, 10:06:57 PM

200 plus acres. The bees are packing in the nectar so fast. Not only are they filling the supers but they are back filling the brood nest faster than the queen can lay. Why are they filling the brood nest when they have plenty of room above?

Steve

AllenF · July 11, 2012, 10:17:50 PM

Maybe your bees are just lazy and are too tired to climb up to the honey supers? That field looks good. How many hives you got on that field?

asprince · July 11, 2012, 10:25:21 PM

Right now about 100. I plan to move a few more this weekend from another sunflower field that is finished.

Steve

AllenF · July 11, 2012, 10:27:29 PM

Sweet. We got nothing up here now. I may move a couple hives across the state line to catch some cotton this weekend.

asprince · July 11, 2012, 10:32:50 PM

You are welcome to bring them here.

Steve

annette · July 11, 2012, 10:34:39 PM

Beautiful photo as well.

asprince · July 11, 2012, 10:51:34 PM

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Thanks. Taken with my cell phone.

Steve

BeeMaster2 · July 12, 2012, 01:46:41 AM

Very nice, How many hives do you place at each site?
Here in N FL when the gall berry is flowing the commercial beeks put about 54 hives per site, about 2-3 miles apart.
Jim

dprater · July 12, 2012, 09:45:35 PM

I planted 2, one hundred ft. rows of sunflower and all I see on them are mason bees, bumble bees and some other things I'm not sure of. But I have not seen one of my honey bees on the sunflowers. Must be something better somewhere else.

Danny

asprince · July 13, 2012, 08:07:55 AM

I have had bees on sunflowers several times. Most of the fields were 10 - 20 acres planted to shoot doves on in the fall. The bees worked them but not a major producer of honey. This field is about 300 acres and planted for the oil. They appear to be smaller flowers. Anyway the bees are working them hard. It could be that there is nothing else for them to work so they are forced on them or this is a better variety of sunflower. They are really packing in the honey.

Steve

hardwood · July 13, 2012, 02:00:52 PM

I understand that the oil producing varieties yield much better than the ones grown for seed.

Scott

divemaster1963 · July 13, 2012, 09:43:02 PM

I plant about a acre of them. al I got was nubs. the deer had a field day with them. I have had so many deer in the yard this year and covered in rabbits. can't grow anything with them around. but my wife won;t eat deer and rabbit so no use in shooting them. I'v tryed repelants. no good.

just out of luck. only thing I can get is the wild backberry. I got about 250 lbs from my 3 good hives. the rest are to new and am building them up for splits.

john

AllenF · July 13, 2012, 10:30:34 PM

Remind me in the fall to load up bring the cooler and head to Gray for some meat. :-D

asprince · July 13, 2012, 11:11:38 PM

Quote from: AllenF on July 13, 2012, 10:30:34 PM
Remind me in the fall to load up bring the cooler and head to Gray for some meat. :-D

They will go in the stealth mode then.

Steve

divemaster1963 · July 13, 2012, 11:56:40 PM

Quote from: asprince on July 13, 2012, 11:11:38 PM
Quote from: AllenF on July 13, 2012, 10:30:34 PM
Remind me in the fall to load up bring the cooler and head to Gray for some meat. :-D

They will go in the stealth mode then.

Steve

tell you how bad it is. in the fall when I get up to go to work I can count as many as 40-50 in the front yard and they don't care how close I get. I can walk upto any of them as close as a foot before they move out of the way. _____ rabbits!

BeeMaster2 · July 14, 2012, 12:40:16 AM

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tell you how bad it is. in the fall when I get up to go to work I can count as many as 40-50 in the front yard and they don't care how close I get. I can walk upto any of them as close as a foot before they move out of the way. _____ rabbits!>

Hea but if yo bring out your shot gun, you won't see a single one.
Jim

Beeboy01 · July 14, 2012, 08:25:07 PM

Cabbage Palm is coming in right now and all the equipment is stacked on the hives. I'm using the flow to draw out all my extra deeps for next year and am sitting on a lot of work with my old Kelly two frame reversable hand cranked extractor. Been working on getting a round to it but haven't found the time for it yet.

duck · July 16, 2012, 01:56:38 AM

for all you rabbit lovers, Ill give you a rabbit catchin secret.. take a 8-10" pipe 14' or longer. lay it on the ground.. approach from the side, then tilt the pipe straight in the air with one end on the ground. the rabbit will fall to the bottom. then your buddy catches the rabbit as you tilt the pipe. you then dispatch the rabbit, move to the next pipe... I call this the rabbit in the pipe trick..

tryintolearn · July 16, 2012, 09:36:43 AM

here in s.c. i have a weak hive. been feeding 1/1 sugar water for about a month...noticed they slacked up on the intake....did some investigating and found a cotton bloom is now taking place....huge 100 acre field..went over and took a look and saw the bees working and doing what they do...excitedly i went in for a look and found my bees building the comb up on several of the 10 deep frames i had been anxiously awaiting this event....thanks heavens for the new flow

BeeMaster2 · July 16, 2012, 12:34:53 PM

My bees are working cabbage palm right now. If the palm in my back yard is any indication, it will be heavy.
Jim