Spring preparation of pollen patties

DannyN — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:25:24 +0000

I’ve just bagged up the patties I made last night. I made about 9 from a batch, between 12oz-1lb each. That was from 3 bags of flour (3 lb) about 1.5 kilo, and 1 bag of yeast (1lb) 454 some think grams? I had to put a bit more syrup with it, has it had got a bit dryer as the flour soaked it up, I have now put it into plastic bags to keep the patties moist. I will try and put some on next week weather permitting.

small mix

3 pound of soya flour
1 pound yeast

about 4+ pints syrup/honey mix,you can use over heated honey (not burnt honey) about 2 pounds mixed with a drop of hot water.put yeast in a small bucked then put in 3 pints of syrup/honey mix, then mix well with your hand to brake up all the yeast, put your flour in a big mixing tub, then put in the yeast mix and work as if you are making a soft dough when you have finished put it in plastic bag about 1 pound to a bag the roll it out flat ready to put in the hives on to the top bars ontop of the brood with the under neath of the patty open for the bees to eat put them on about mid of February if the weather is ok

Link to recipe hand out from Feb 2012 meeing

Lure for wasps, hornets and wax moths..

nickh — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:13:40 +0000

The lure consist of a 2 litre bottle suspended from a nearby tree. The bottle has a 1 inch hole cut at the top of the bottle into which is poured the following mixture.

1/2 a cup of white wine vinegar,
1 cup of water,
1 cup of sugar and
the skin from a banana.

When the banana skin starts to ferment the lure draws in the wax moth, wasps and the bald headed hornet.

(tip by Oisin Hanrahan)

Harlow Bees

Spring preparation of pollen patties

Lure for wasps, hornets and wax moths..