Woodpeckers (for some reason its only the Green Woodpeckers) can sometimes attack beehives to eat the bees and honeycomb. They…
Catching up…
Right, back to trying to write up visits as they happen, now the blog is working again. And so…
Keeping the wasps away…
The long, hard winter seems to have had a real impact on this years wasp numbers which seem to be…
Forgive me, for I have failed to blog
This post relates to my 3rd visit to the Training Apiary this year, and this is my first time writing…
Honey Harvest
Two visits have gone by since I last wrote here. The bee inspector visited, and we didn’t have any EFB…
EFB in the Apiary? But Hive 5 is Alive!
Back in the Training Apiary for the first time after the holiday, and after being warned by Geoff and Simon…
Not much to report…
That’s about it. We do have some signs of laying in a number of the hives. My main one is…
Summer arrives finally for the bees, with pluses and minuses
For the first time in ages it was sunny this morning when I set out to the Apiary, but whether…
Emily Returns
Emily’s back from her first year at Uni, and the weather stopped another training session happening Saturday, so Sunday afternoon,…
Second team of trainees in the Apiary
Another quarter of this years new trainees were in the Training Apiary for the first time this year, and we…