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…
Greenhouse
Just wanted to share with you our new greenhouse, we have looked at these for the last two years, and due to our weather/season being a bit quick and short…
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…
Sheep out !
From the 4.4. the sheep are out, we had + 27 degrees yesterday and + 24 degrees today, it is suppose to cool down a bit,but what we actually need…
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…