2007-2008 Educational Year Begins

Bugün 9 Eylül 2007. Okulda 1. sınıfa kaydolan öğrencileri 3 liste yapıp biz de bu sınıflardan birini kurra yolu ile çekeceğiz. Bi tarftan düşünüyorum da önümüzdeki 5 yılın adeta kaderini tayin edeceğiz. Kimlerle karşılaşacağız, öğrencilerimin başarıları ne olacak, beni can kulaklarıyla dinleyecekler mi gibi soruların cevaplarını bulmaya çalışacağız.Dileğim odur ki önceki dönemden daha az problemli bir dönem geçirmek. "Hayırlısı olsun." demekten başka yapacak bir şey yok şimdilik...

Difficult Summer

It was a difficult summer for beekeeperss in Turkey because harsh drought effected all of us. That's to say,coming winter also will be too difficult to overvintering bees by feeding colonies without taking honey from them. Open your vallets...

Aşırı kuraklık nedeniyle zor ve bereketsiz bir yaz geçiriyoruz. Bal almadan arıları kışlatmak için beslememiz bizler için daha da da zor olacağa benziyor. Allah yardımcımız olsun. Ne yapalım hazırlıklar gelecek sene için...

Black Bushes Bloomed

Here a picture from my apiary. Black bushes have begun bloom till on 22'nd May and full speed nectar flow is remaining.

A Shipment To Canakkale and Happy President

This year we are rearring gueens and I have sent my first shipment as 10 items gueens to Eskisehir and what a pity with my failure 3 queens have died because of excessive stuff of accompaniment bees. My client wanted to say something but I have taken my responsibility. Later we talked on MSN service and I have seen first shipment queens photos on internet.

A picture of Kirklareli Province Bee Breeders Union President Mr. Ridvan Ulus with a shipment to Canakkale Prvince Bee Breeders Union. This time we did not hear negative something by sending 85 queens.

Queenbee Rearing Activities

Nowadays I am very busy with queenbee rearing activities . Here some pictures.

Spring Works Have Begun

Some spring flowers which they gives early nectar to the bees

Last and this weekend I try to feed the bees. Some of

them are fully honeyed and some very scare by honey.

I try to open some crystalized frames in order to easy up

the bees bussiness. Meanwhile I treat them with Hive Clean.

Tomorrow I will give the bees sugar syrup first. Rainy days

wonderful. I hope will remain frequently in the spring.

A Warm Winter

I want to write anymore. After a warmer winter, bees are in good situation. I hope this year will be a good year for bees and us. Winter losses are not so many. Two weeks ago l have made sugar powder in Uskup Town and next day I went to Provincial Agricultural Administration. Thanks them because they are providing us a mill for making sugar to powder and a dough mixer to make cakes for bees. (But a mill was broken down And I had to go to private mill in Uskup Town.) I mixed there a sack of powdered sugar, 50 kg milk powder and and a little bit honey to make cake for bees. The weather was pretty cold, then I tried a lot to clean the mixer because of sticky cake and cold. There wasn'nt any hot water also to clean it so I tried a lot. Anyway, I achieved to leave it back how I found it.

Last weekend at th end of the semester time, I have gone to apiary to give some cakes to the bees. I have controllled all of them so which one is the urgentliy need feeding. I have seen that
many of them has begun to lay down eggs. Meanwhile I have got some some nuces which I try to winter them to use after winter and early spring bee losses. Firstly I put cakes on those nuces and their mood was excellent. Then I have given 25 and more hives cakes for feeding and aried, ventileted their suppers, adjusted some honey filled framaes just on the centered hole over the brood chamber to go up and bring the honey down to the brood area. This weekend too I have to make the same things. That's enough for the first day bye...

Rainy Week

Today is the second day of November. This week we have begun to feel winter. All Turkey is under heavy floods which there are many deads in South East Anatolia Region. I did not go to apiary within the week. Today also is raining. I hope coming saturday I will visit the bees. Rain has come excessively and I did not finish my some bussiness. Anyway coming days will be some good days may be I can do something.Lessons are going on full-speed. Students are getting me tired.

Putting The Hives On Stands For Overwintering

Days are passing very rapidly. Since on 12nd October, a few times I visited the apiary and I pulled out screws from hives and covers which I screwed them for safety carrying. I have found some queenless hives and united them with others. When carried the hives first, we have put down them on ground. This could cause to nosema desease, I had to put them on stands first. But there were many jobs should be done. My hives generally with double chambered so bee were filling second chamber with honey and the brood chambers were empty. If the hives stay with this position, that to say, bees, honey in the second chamber and empty combs in the brood chamber cause to get mouldy of the empty combs in the brood chamber, at the same time, coming in and going outs are being difficult for the bees, their way is being long. However, bees prefer upper chamber for overwintering because it is warmer than the first brood chamber. Shortly, I have to change them honey filled combs and the bees to the down and the empty combs, semi-filled combs to the up chamber. Doing so, I have to put a canvas with a hole nearly 5 cm radius just the midst of the canvas beetween brood and the supper. In the spring, bees are going up to eat semi-honey filled frames and I can put there some cake and syrup just upper of brood area. By the way, you can ask me : "Why do I put empty combs in the hive's second chamber over brood chamber?" Because I dont use any chamicals to protect combs against comb worms and I haven't got a proper place to put the empty combs. No sulphurdiocide and no paradiclorobenzen. Bees are protecting their empty combs with natural ways. May be this is giving my honey a special fragrance, clients and friends frequently tell me.
Anyhow this weekend I have finished to prepare them for overwintering. I meant, I put them on stands to protect earth's decaying process the hives and the bees from nosema desease. But some hives need paint, madication and overall covering on stands, coming weekends I have to look at these jobs too.

Works done for overwintering

At the end, we have carried hives to the owervintering place in Demircihalil Village. So I want to thank especially to my friends who helped me, Mr. Semih Baydemir, My sister's husband Osman Kumit and his nephew Sezgin Tomruk, Mr Ridvan Ulus and our lorry owner Mr. Sakir Kılıcel.Last Thursday I begun the day with some diffuculties, especially TUrkcell my telephone service provider did not give service that day. Organisation is pretty diffucult to connect others come together. Anyhow my moustache eating continued short. But I really got angry with Turkcell GSM operator because it is being two important days carrying the bees and no service. Anyhow our lorry was a little one so we turned two times within the same night. Thanks God weather was cold so bees had entered their hives early. So our job got easy. And last sunday I went to get order the hives, to put them on the stands with a very carefully work. In order to not topple down again. Anyhow, the ground is not so much soft like the plouged field in Kavakli Town. I made a watery system for the bees. There were open and closed cells on the combs. Meanwhile I had taken 6 item tins to the new apiary and opened their lids then all bees come to eat the tins. It was a good view. bye :)