Warm and sunny, ..
it arrived, the fields are sooo green, well except for the yellow dandeloins and the purple orchids, etc, but the grass has decided to grow, we had rain, and cold…
2 hives left
Went walking on Thursday, were home the rest of the day, bees flying, Friday we went cycling in the morning, later stayed at home bees flying Hive A was behaving…
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…
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…
Last planned interruption in the bee hive
I have been looking at two of my hives that I left with two supers on, by taking off the lid and watching where they are clustering. I have been…
Photos from today’s inspection
Well after what seems like many days of rain and unsettled weather today we woke up to brilliant blue sky and sunshine, not that it stayed for the whole day…
Sun, Rain, Hail, Storms, …
We have just about had it all in the last two weeks, in between beekeeping we have been chopping wood for winter, making hay, generally keeping the garden in order.…