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The fumagilin-B in heavy syrup, sugar 2:1 in a gallon water, rests now in the hive box wide feeder with the screen and two plastic reservoirs on each side of the screen.\u00a0 The bees can come up around the screen and reach the syrup.\u00a0 It will do two things for this colony, the package colony.\u00a0 First, it will feed them so they can shore up their stores for the winter months.\u00a0 Second, it will treat them for nosema, an infection that threatens their survival over the long winter.\u00a0 Nobody got riled up when I put the feeder on or when I poured the syrup into the troughs.<\/p>\n
I also put the shims on the parent and divide to give the bees space where the apiguard goes in the hive.\u00a0 When I lifted the top hive box off to place the shim underneath it on the divide, I saw that the apiguard had reduced by half at least.\u00a0 The treatment has gotten to them.\u00a0 The shims went on, but propolis made getting the hive box squared away on top of the the shim difficult. The propolis allowed the heavy hive box to gain traction on the shim pushing it off center.\u00a0 Even so, I did, finally, get it on.<\/p>\n
When I get back from Indiana, I’ll finish the apiguard treatment, then begin the fumagilin-b for the other two colonies.<\/p>\n
Last night I passed out pints of honey to the Woollies.\u00a0 It tickled me, the satisfaction I got from seeing my friends heft the honey. Scott tasted it.\u00a0 They will take it home, put it on toast, use it in cereal, whatever they want.\u00a0 Each time they do, a bit of Artemis Hives transfers itself and its quite literal energy to them.\u00a0 In that way they become us and we become them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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