Scientists are using a noninvasive long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging method pioneered by researchers at Montana State University (Bozeman, MT) and the University of Montana (Missoula, MT) that uses a radiometrically calibrated camera signal to noninvasively estimate the number of bees within their hives. More information here: http://www.optoiq.com/index/photonics-technologies-applications/lfw-display/lfw-article-display/1492187646/articles/laser-focus-world/volume-47/issue-2/newsbreaks/lwir-imaging-method-noninvasively-monitors-honeybee-hives.html
Getting ready for Winter
We didn’t get to see the Bees last week. It was either raining or muggy or both, or we couldn’t…
Holiday Stuff
We’ve been off for a week, and back again, then off for 4 days, and in between we’ve seen the…
Harvesting honey the easy way…
I’ve been a fan of polystyrene hives for some time, especially those sold by John Laidlaw at Modern Beekeeping. Unfortunately,…
Clean Bees
We visited the Apiary twice this weekend. First on Saturday afternoon, to assist Simon in removing Super boxes from some…
Preparing feeders for the autumn
In preparation for post-harvest feeding, I bought a couple of feeders from Modern Beekeeping to go with my new hives.…
A new queen gets to work…
Before I start this week I want to point you to another bee blog I’ve been following with interest: http://novice-beekeeper.blogspot.com/…
Supersedure!
So this is my first entry here as an actual Blog post, rather than a copying in of an email…
The Lucky Beekeeper #6
Eldest has gone off for a week, so it was me, youngest and my wife joined us to see how…
The Lucky Beekeeper #5
A swarm is the old queen from a colony, leaving with half the bees from it. Drones fertilise her in-flight…