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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

Feeding = Robbing

01/08/2016 By Maria

I am starting to think that this is going to be the case every time I feed my bees. Firstly once I started feeding I reduced the entrances, on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Apifonda, Bee Vital, Feeding, flowers, Hive Clean, Robbing

Pictures of bees + flowers

17/04/2016 By Maria

    Bees are getting very busy, cowslips, cherries, wild plumbs, hawthorn, may, in our garden helleborus, fritallaria, bluberries, pulsatilla. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Uncategorized Tagged With: flowers, pollen

– 3.7*C @ night

02/11/2015 By Maria

Last night was the first night with reasonably hard frost, we have been having odd weather, mind you everybody is having odd weather, during the day … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: flowers, hive

A new Bee Garden

18/10/2015 By Maria

I have been considering building a bee bed with "bee" plants for our girls and of course all the other insects and all those thoughts have come to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Projects Tagged With: flowers

The bees,

06/10/2015 By Maria

are doing really well, we have had some really nice sunny days with frosty nights.  On days such as these the bees are slower to come out, but once … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, extracting, flowers

Stores up to date 15/09/15

15/09/2015 By Maria

Hive A  received 10 kg sugar syrup Hive B  received 9 kg sugar syrup Hive C received 7 kg sugar syrup Hive D received 10 kg sugar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: BeeStrong, Feeding, flowers, guards, Optimal hives, stores

10 stings later,

20/07/2015 By Maria

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: eggs, flowers, Stings, supers, wick

Hive inspections April 2014

05/05/2014 By Maria

First time I inspected the hives was on the 5th of April, The bees were very angry about the whole interruption and I tried to work as effectively … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: F/L, flowers, Foundationless, hive, Michael Bush, mood

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