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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

Feeding and fighting

14/09/2016 By Maria

I have 3 hives now, my little hive fought on and on, I made a mistake of putting syrup onto the frame and then opening it to give them some water with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Feeding, Raspberries, Varroa

Feeding Bees,

05/09/2016 By Maria

I gave the bees the last of the Apifonda paste that I purchased earlier this year. Most of the bees have taken it, except for my C hive which still … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Apifonda, Apivital, honey, inverted sugar, sirup, Varroa

Feeding so far

23/08/2015 By Maria

Started feeding on the 21st of August 2015, I made a 2:1.3 mix, 2 kg of sugar to 1.3 ml of water.  I usually feed a 3:2 mix but as I only had 2 kg of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, Feeding, Varroa

Feeding time

20/08/2015 By Maria

After about 2-3 weeks of really hot weather, above 30 - 38 degrees Celsius nearly every day, and about 20 degrees during the night have come to an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, BeeVital, Hiveclean, Varroa

BEES ARE BACK IN MY BEEHIVES, HURRAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

17/05/2015 By Maria

I am so chuffed.  As of Monday the 11th of May I have bees. I actually have 3 hives of bees. It started with two hives, we went to a family … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, Hives, Varroa

Chasing rainbows,

31/08/2014 By Maria

Well that is how I feel now, I feel like I have been chasing rainbows with my bees this year. What is more frustrating I finally felt like I have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: extracting, hive, Varroa

Between a rock and a hard place

31/07/2014 By Maria

That is how I felt a few weeks ago because of what I ended up with. It started with a Quenless hive,took me a while to realize this, in the end I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Drones, Foundationless Frames, Quenless, Varroa

Autumn is here,

02/09/2013 By Maria

Had a very fresh start to the morning, woke up and it was 5 degrees, very cold wind blew for most of the day the bees took their time getting out and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Autumn, Hiveclean, Varroa

October/November

04/11/2012 By Maria

The weather has changed and changed again in such a short period of time. Nature never ceases to amaze me. Beautiful and yet so unforgiving. Last … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bees, Owls, Varroa, Winter

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