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A cold spell

24/06/2018 By Maria

we have gone from plus 30 degrees to plus 11 in two days, right now it is grey and cold and wet, so here I am sitting at my computer just after 10am … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Projects Tagged With: Bees, Birch Sawfly, Colorado Beetle, hay stack, Mushrooms, Queen cells, Quenn

Bees – robber screen

15/10/2017 By Maria

I meant to have put this post on here earlier but did not get round to doing it and did not get round to using the robber screen as it was. The first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: aster, Raspberries, Robber screen, wild crocus

Bees in September 2017

10/09/2017 By Maria

I started feeding on the 22 of August with 1 1/2l of the inverted syrup I purchased a year ago. I rung the chap from the shop where I got it from to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bee Vital, Bees, Feed, Hive Clean, Inverted syrup, Mike, Robber screen, Robbers, sirup, stores, Super, Varroa

Things and places we got up to

06/08/2017 By Maria

 We have officialy finished hay making, our barn is full, we still have boards on the top of our hay just to allow a little bit of space between … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Projects Tagged With: flowers, Meddy, sheep

Bees update

09/07/2017 By Maria

I added a super to my bees on Thursday the 6th of July I had a quick look at them and decided they were getting quite full in their little home, I had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, stores

Bees update

18/06/2017 By Maria

13.6.2017 I moved two frames with foundation (relatively new foundation) amongst the 6 frames from Juro as they were not building out, will be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Foundation

Bees arrived

07/06/2017 By Maria

Hurray we have got a Nuc, a friend of mine from the village has rung to say whether I still want bees last night,  I mean what a question !!! of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Nuc

Bee Safe

07/06/2017 By Maria

I have looked into cleaning up my hives etc, just in case there is something that I should not put my new bees into so I spoke to my very good friend … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: BeeSafe

Bees

24/05/2017 By Maria

The reason why I have not mentioned that much about my bees is due to the fact that I only have a little amount of them left. I had problems with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, eggs, pollen, The Queen

Warm and sunny, ..

14/05/2017 By Maria

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Projects Tagged With: hive, Queen, stores, Warm

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