I have been keeping bees for nearly 18 years now and this has been my busiest ever season.  What with the weather starting off so mild and the colonies building up so...

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Well, it’s been another bumper year for the bees – though it’s not over yet by a long way.  The weather has been hot, with rain from time to time rather than...

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On and on the hot weather goes – and on and on the bees go, gathering nectar, expanding dramatically, swarming, and making life very busy for all beekeepers. Whilst things have settled...

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What a couple of months it’s been!  Swarms left, right and centre!  I think it’s fair to say that 2014 will go down as one of the swarmiest seasons for a year...

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What a contrast in the weather this year compared to this time last year We have had a very mild winter with warm weather most of the time, whereas this time last...

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We’ve had a fair amount of fine, warm – and even sunny – weather recently and the bees have been taking full advantage of it. They are desperate to gather fresh pollen...

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Whilst January is a quiet month for the bees, it is not so quiet for the beekeeper! During the past few weeks I have been busy on several “out of season” tasks,...

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This has been an unusual winter so far (though the real winter is yet to come, I suspect). The temperatures have been so mild that the bees have been flying almost continuously...

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