BeeMania – May 2023 – Colin Rees
Spare a thought for the bees If you’re fed up with this April weather, just think how fed up the bees are! March was cold, wet and windy – in fact, March...
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Bee Mania – April 2023 – Colin Rees
Colin mulls over the chances of some good spring honey, what we can do to avoid honey fraud and how to deal with honeybee swarms. I was checking my colonies...
Bee Mania – March 2023 – Colin Rees
Colin Rees explains how bees, and bee keepers, are gearing up for spring As I write this month’s blog, I am looking out of the window at a lovely sunny day –...
Bee Mania – February 2023 – Colin Rees
We’ve had quite a change in the weather over the past two weeks or so – the heavens appear to have run out of rain! This means the bees are flying...
BeeMania – January 2023 – Colin Rees
So that’s Christmas done and dusted for another year! The bees were out doing their Christmas shopping on Christmas eve (they always leave things until the...
Bee Mania – December 2022 – Colin Rees
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...
BeeMania – November 2022 – Colin Rees
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...
Bee Mania – October 2022 – Colin Rees
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,...
BeeMania – September 2022 – Colin Rees
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...
BeeMania – August 2022 – Colin Rees
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...