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...
Category: BeeMania
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...
April 2011
What an unusual month March has been! Some days were like summer, what with the warm sun and the windless days – I am sure the day of reckoning is not far...
March 2011
The temperatures over the past month 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...
February 2011
As I reported last month, the weather has not, in the main, been conducive to bees flying. However, we have had one or two warmer days when the bees have been out...
January 2011
Well, what a month! Whilst we (locally) managed to escape the worst consequences of the cold weather, with very little snow (and temperatures that were positively tropical compared with parts of the...