February 2012
The winter weather has at last arrived – thank Goodness! I ‘m always a lot happier when the cold weather sets in (happier for the bees, if not for myself!) as it...
Author: Phil Keymer
January 2012
The weather this past month has not been as cold as it was this time last year, so the bees have had the odd day when flying out of the hive to...
December 2011
Unlike this time last year, the bees are still not yet in full cluster because the days are not really cold enough for that at the moment. Night times, maybe, but I...
November 2011
Well, the autumn days are now with us – which has come as a bit of a shock after the temperatures we experienced in the first week of October. I even had...
October 2011
In previous reports I have talked about this year having been a swarmy season for bees, so much so that you must think that nothing else happens with them. Well, it appears...
September 2011
What an unusual month! The nectar flow carried on after the end of July (this hasn’t happened for about 5 years now), albeit somewhat reduced compared to previous weeks, but it was...
August 2011
Well, what a month it has been – even summer, some might say! This is the first time for five years that we have had a July with hot weather that has...