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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

9th of March Lambs were born

26/03/2018 By Maria

Ewe-Ewe had 3 lambs. She was getting bigger and bigger and around lunch time on the 9th of March she gave birth to 3 lambs, equal sizes then and now, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bees, frost, Lamb, Meddy, Nuc, sheep, Vratna

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

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

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

Ewe-Ewe and her new lambs for 2017

13/03/2017 By Maria

Ewe-Ewe has been looking a bit heavy and uncomfortable the last two days, there was no news at lunch time or at 4pm, when I came to feed them this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Projects Tagged With: Bees, Ewe, lambs, Meddy

Bees out and about

09/03/2017 By Maria

was warm over the last couple of days, with a bit of sunshine here and there, a few bees have been seen outside, cleaning up, resting on the hive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, hive, stores

Bees were out,

19/02/2017 By Maria

we had about 10 days of blue skies and sunshine also + temperatures during the day. Although I did not see them myself but Mike managed to get some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, hive

Lots of snow ****

03/12/2016 By Maria

On Thursday and Friday last week the snow just kept coming, it was amazing, the snowflakes were ranging from very small and lumpy to huge fluffy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Projects Tagged With: Bees, hive, mesh, sheep

Bees were out yesterday,

15/12/2015 By Maria

My bees have ventured outside yesterday, we had a lovely sunny day, was not amazingly warm about  +8 Degrees too warm for this time of the year. There … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, Warm

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