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False Swarms and Varroa

02/05/2011 / Simon / Leave a Comment on False Swarms and Varroa

Saturday, mid-day, a group of 13 of us met up at the Training Apiary to go over what 12 of…

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Queen Cells?

26/04/2011 / Simon / Leave a Comment on Queen Cells?

We got home on Saturday night to find a phone message from Simon. He and Geoff had popped by earlier…

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A Growing Hive

18/04/2011 / Simon / Leave a Comment on A Growing Hive

This last Sunday evening we went back to the hive, to see how they were doing. And remembering that we…

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Spring Panic?

12/04/2011 / Simon / Leave a Comment on Spring Panic?

So, it’s Spring, and we’ve done a few visits to the bees so far, mostly to move them to the…

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Getting ready for Winter

13/09/2010 / Simon / Leave a Comment on 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…

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Holiday Stuff

30/08/2010 / Simon / Leave a Comment on Holiday Stuff

We’ve been off for a week, and back again, then off for 4 days, and in between we’ve seen the…

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Clean Bees

09/08/2010 / Simon / 1 Comment on Clean Bees

We visited the Apiary twice this weekend. First on Saturday afternoon, to assist Simon in removing Super boxes from some…

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A new queen gets to work…

01/08/2010 / Simon / Leave a Comment on 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/…

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Supersedure!

29/07/2010 / Simon / 2 Comments on Supersedure!

So this is my first entry here as an actual Blog post, rather than a copying in of an email…

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The Lucky Beekeeper #6

18/07/2010 / Simon / Leave a Comment on The Lucky Beekeeper #6

Eldest has gone off for a week, so it was me, youngest and my wife joined us to see how…

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