We got home on Saturday night to find a phone message from Simon. He and Geoff had popped by earlier…
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…
Holiday Stuff
We’ve been off for a week, and back again, then off for 4 days, and in between we’ve seen the…
Clean Bees
We visited the Apiary twice this weekend. First on Saturday afternoon, to assist Simon in removing Super boxes from some…
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. …