Feeding = Robbing
I am starting to think that this is going to be the case every time I feed my bees. Firstly once I started feeding I reduced the entrances, on the…
Fed two hives,
Decided that I am going to feed my two smallest hives, Hive B and F got a handfull of Apifonda last night, around 10pm, it was relatively warm about 14…
Bees
I did an inspection on the 5th of this month, my biggest surprise was hive E, I honestly thought that would be doing really well until I opened it on…
New Hive “F”
Last night we shuffled the hives a bit to make a space for one more hive, Hive F, the only hive which really took umbridge to being moved was hive…
Busy Bees, …
I have checked the bees since my last post, they have been really busy and doing reasonably well. I am due to check them again sometimes this week but the…
Pictures of bees + flowers
Bees are getting very busy, cowslips, cherries, wild plumbs, hawthorn, may, in our garden helleborus, fritallaria, bluberries, pulsatilla. I nearly forgot I managed to find and buy a cercis…
Feeding, inspections, …
On the 7th of April I mixed up syrup and got ready to feed, just prior to two days of rain, except with that came colder temperatures so it took…
Bees inspection the first of 2016,
It was about 2pm, I decided to do it later on in the day as it was warming up a bit too rapidly and the scent of honey was drifting…
20 degrees, ….
I fed my bees with Apifonda, in a matter of about 5 days I noticed a bit too much activity around the hives, I suspect robbing, AGAIN, so I put…
New life!!
I told our Ewe Ewe this morning hang on till we come back today, do you think she understood? When we got back after unloading I went to check on…