Well, it’s almost December as I write this and the bees are still flying – at least they have been when it’s not been raining!  What an awful month November has been...

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So the beekeeping season is drawing to a close, after what has turned out to be one of the better seasons for a few years – for me, at least.  All my...

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This past month I finished taking off my summer supers of honey, ready for extraction as you saw last month and the month before.  When a super is removed from the hive,...

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Another dry month for the bees.  After my report last month – the day after, in fact – the nectar flow stopped totally.  Bees were hanging around the hive entrances, wondering what...

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At last , Summer has arrived! A bit late but never mind, it’s here now.  The only problem is, of course, that with the very hot weather the grand dries out and...

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So what happened to “flaming June”?  Well, it flamed on a few days with extremely high temperatures, so high it was quite uncomfortable doing anything, let alone beekeeping in a beekeeping suit. ...

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For a few days in April I thought the beekeeping season had started!  The weather was warm, the bitter, north-easterly wind had finally dropped and the bees were going crazy for nectar...

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So, the blackthorn is starting to flower already!  This means the bees have now an abundance of nectar as well as pollen available to start the new season.  Once we get to...

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Well, what a windy few days we’ve had with Dudley, Eunice and Franklin.  Yet again, though, we’ve escaped lightly here on the south coast, but since I did not know what was...

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