July 2012

This is not a good year for honeybees – as if they didn’t already have enough problems with Colony Collapse Disorder, Varroa and neonicotinoid insecticides! The weather has brought very many colonies...

June 2012

What an interesting season this has been for our bees – an early Spring in March encouraged them to build up very rapidly, but then the poor things were confined to their...

May 2012

What an April this has been! We did the “Grand Tour” of the grandchildren after Easter, travelling up to North Wales first, then back down to South Wales, and generally speaking we...

March 2012

The temperatures over the last week have become a little warmer than earlier and the bees have been taking full advantage of this. They are flying out on the less windy days...