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Beware of woodpeckers!
Woodpeckers (for some reason its only the Green Woodpeckers) can sometimes attack beehives to eat the bees and honeycomb. They…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 3
So we went to see the swarm again in their new home to see how they were getting on. We…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 2
In the last posting I described how we had removed a large and well established swarm of bees that had…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 1…
Even the most diligent of beekeepers employing a strict inspection process to manage swarming gets it wrong occasionally… We have…
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…
Elizabeth – The Queen bee in waiting…
Another busy weekend in our apiary. Spring is finally here in all it’s glory and the blossom is out on…