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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

Another great day

27/03/2017 By Maria

It was - 5 this morning but by the time the sun came out about 9 am the temperature in the greenhouse rose to +20,8C that is amazing. Except for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Projects Tagged With: hive, 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

3d of October and 2 hives

03/10/2016 By Maria

Checked the hives on Saturday, we had a nice sunny day, a litte bit of wind and a two days before the weather was due to change. Well they were right … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: hive, honey, inverted sugar, stores

2 hives left

26/09/2016 By Maria

Went walking on Thursday, were home the rest of the day, bees flying, Friday we went cycling in the morning, later stayed at home bees flying Hive A … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: CCD, desinfect, hive, Queen

Reducing the hives

22/08/2016 By Maria

Checked the hives last week,  the only hive with 3 supers is hive A, they are actually looking really good. Hive C, my stropy hive is down to 2 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: hive, supers

New Hive “F”

13/06/2016 By Maria

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 C, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Projects Tagged With: Brood, Crochet, Drones, Foundationless, hive, Queen

Last planned interruption in the bee hive

08/11/2015 By Maria

I have been looking at two of my hives that I left with two supers on, by taking off the lid and watching where they are clustering. I have been a bit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: hive, Queen, stores, supers

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