BeeMania 2012 | Roseland Online

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...

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...

April 2012

Last weekend I spent a most enjoyable time on the Isles of Scilly – and the weather made it feel like summer-time (I know it was the same here, as well, but...

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...