Bee-Mania – May 2013 – Colin Rees
What a winter this has been (I think we can safely assume it is more or less over by now!). It has been long, wet and cold – extremely cold, and for...
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Bee-Mania – April 2013 – Colin Rees
This has been an abysmal start to the year for our beloved honeybees. The weather has been relentlessly cold and wet, so even though the bees know it is time to start...
Bee-Man-ia February 2013
As I reported last month, the weather has not, in the main, been conducive to bees flying. However, we have had one or two drier days when the bees have been out...
BeeMania – January 2013
So it looks like there is still plenty of rain left in the heavens to descend upon us – I suppose from the melting ice-caps and glaciers. But I won’t dwell on...
BeeMania – December 2012
Well, what else does Nature have in store for us? Having had a spring/summer season mainly devoid of foraging opportunities, the bees now have had to endure a month of weather ranging...
BeeMania – November 2012
Up until last week, the weather has been mild enough and dry enough for the bees to be able to continue their quest for ivy nectar – and very successful they have...
BeeMania – October 2012
I should have known! Having said in last month’s Beeman-ia that the ivy flow could start any time soon, it actually started on the 1st September, just after my report went in!...
September 2012
As I said last month, nature would not be so stupid as to allow the bees to starve by not providing weather conditions, at least at some point, suitable for plants to...
August 2012
Well, I should have known Nature would not be so stupid as to allow rain and cold weather to continue for so long that the bees would die of starvation through lack...