Update 21/10/19: No confirmed sightings reported – likely false alarm. But please remain vigilant. On Monday, 7th October 2019 a credible…
Asian Hornet
A useful update from the BeeBase resource/National Bee Unit regarding the Asian Hornet: Following recent press articles there have been…
What a difference a year makes….
Yesterday was still very cold, but as we had to feed the Bee Good colonies to prevent them starving, we…
Feeding Bees in winter
Here in the south of England, the winter refuses to loose it’s grip and it’s barely reaching 6C in the…
Bees don’t read books!
Here in Hampshire, we’ve had about 5″ of snow locally over the last 24 hours with quite strong winds and…
Keeping woodpeckers away
Here in southern England we have to protect our bee hives against Woodpeckers who occasionally attack colonies usually in late…
The bees know best…
So today we went to have a quick check on the colonies in the main apiary to make sure they…
At the UK National Honey Show
So this week Elsa and I went to the UK National Honey Show in Weybridge, Surrey. It runs over three days and…
From bucket to jar.
I got back from Tokyo on Saturday, and spent some of Sunday and Monday getting the honey into jars. Using…
Not much to report this week really. A large group of us turned up at the Apiary this morning, about…