We visited the Apiary twice this weekend. First on Saturday afternoon, to assist Simon in removing Super boxes from some…
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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…
The Lucky Beekeeper #4
So, we returned to the FreeBees last night. Both daughters came with this time – Eldest is getting interested, but…
The Lucky Beekeeper #3
So, we’d noticed they’d been getting angry when we were looking them over – and they’d been very calm before. …
The Lucky Beekeeper #2
So, I’ve been to see them a few times since, and they’re getting on well. The end board I made…
The Lucky Beekeeper
I got my hive and most of the frames last week. Due to the huge increase in beekeepers this year,…