Feeding so far
Started feeding on the 21st of August 2015, I made a 2:1.3 mix, 2 kg of sugar to 1.3 ml of water. I usually feed a 3:2 mix but as…
Feeding time
After about 2-3 weeks of really hot weather, above 30 - 38 degrees Celsius nearly every day, and about 20 degrees during the night have come to an abrupt end…
10 stings later,
The bees have been acting quite protectively around the hive, the smell of honey is pretty overpowering so I am guessing for a very good reason they are acting the…
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.…
5th hive!
Well, I would not have believed it if somebody told me 12 days ago that I would have 5 hives with bees in them in our garden. No way, but…
4th Hive !
Yesterday afternoon, while I was sorting out the lawn edges I stopped to listen to the bees. They seemed to be pretty loud and a lot of them in the…
From the
27th of April till today, 18th of May we had the scaffolding round three sides of our house, we have been sanding the wood, cleaning up, and painting it. We…
BEES ARE BACK IN MY BEEHIVES, HURRAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so chuffed. As of Monday the 11th of May I have bees. I actually have 3 hives of bees. It started with two hives, we went to a…
3d of April
and we had to go and clear snow by the garages and pathways, we must have had good 30-40cm of snow. We were the 3d on the chair lift in…