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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

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

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

Busy Bees, …

05/06/2016 By Maria

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Queen, supers

Feeding, inspections, …

14/04/2016 By Maria

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 them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, Feeding, Foundationless, Queen

Bees inspection the first of 2016,

05/04/2016 By Maria

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 somewhat so as not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, eggs, Feed, Queen, Robbers

20 degrees, ….

31/03/2016 By Maria

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: AGAIN, eggs, Queen, Ram

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

Photos from today’s inspection

22/06/2015 By Maria

Well after what seems like many days of rain and unsettled weather today we woke up to brilliant blue sky and sunshine, not that it stayed for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, Queen, Weather

Sun, Rain, Hail, Storms, …

11/06/2015 By Maria

We have just about had it all in the last two weeks, in between beekeeping we  have been chopping wood for winter, making hay, generally keeping the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, Brood, Capped, Hive Clean, Queen, Queen cells

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