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 –...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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. ...
Yay! At long last, the beekeeping season appears to have started! Up until this past week, the weather has been so unpredictable, with sun shining but cold winds or warm weather and...