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keithrawlins · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 152 Location: banbridge

ther is a shortage of bees globely this year ,apparantly it happens every so often collenys just get wiped out , most off the keepers i know are luky if a 1/4 of there hives survived the winter. no one seems to know why?

Camile · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject:

The weather has been so bad those last couple of weeks that beekeepers have to start feeding them again ..

what the hell are we getting into !?! if everything goes according to plan, we should have ours tomorrow Shocked

bref · Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 136 Location: South Dublin

Friend of mine started keeping a hive last year and last week I was talking to him about them. He lost all his bees over the winter and said there has been some talk of mobile phone masts causing some trouble screwing up their navigation..........

wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1171 Location: Campile. Wexford

In the last three years before moving to Ireland I lost all my bees <5 colonies> over winter. They just diappeared dispite there being full frames of stores. At the first inspection there seemed to be no problems but a month later there were very few bees in the coloney and no brood at all. There was no corpses either. I blamed spraying as the rape was in full flower at this time but was told that no insectacide would be used at this time of year. There was spraying going on but i was assured that it was fungicide on the corn. My bees would still have to fly through it on their way to the rape though. One of the colonies just had a hand full of workers and the queen. These were gone by the next week. A very sorry state it all was. After each lost coloney I burned all the frames and scorched the inside of the hive. This did not stop loosing another coloney the following year. I did hear that there is an ailment that is sweeping the UK. I think it was caled LCS or Lost coloney syndrome, and no one had yet found the cause. I hope this has not come to Ireland. Good luck with the harvest guys.

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