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It’s a bee day

This morning I inspected the hives in my home apiary. Mostly they’re looking good. I had to add a super to a couple of colonies and a second brood box to another, found a queen and marked her. One colony … Continue reading

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Nasty bees

Thanks to an EFB outbreak locally I have an inspection booked with the seasonal bee inspector on Thursday, so I thought I’d take the time to have a quick check over of the hives beforehand. I opened the first hive … Continue reading

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Bee Inspections, 11th May 2024

Before heading off to the “Team Bees” apiary, I went through my hives at home. Nothing too exciting going on… One colony needed supers and another looks to be superseding. In another colony I found the queen, but most of … Continue reading

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Busy (Star Wars) bee day, 4th May

In contrast to our recent weather Saturday was a really lovely day: warm, sunny, very few clouds. Proper shorts weather. So I did 🙂 Given the fact that it was so pleasant, first order of the day was to inspect … Continue reading

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It’s all go…

Sadly not in a good way in this case. My first EFB alert of the season has just arrived together with a request from a seasonal bee inspector to check some of my hives. Fingers crossed that none of them … Continue reading

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Visiting the last of my beehives for the first time this Spring

The closure of a local bridge to, well, almost anywhere really, meant that the shortest two alternative routes (at least for small vehicles) took be past almost all of the hives that I hadn’t yet visited so far this Spring, … Continue reading

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Super super

I went out to put a super on a hive this morning and to deliver a few (rather late) jars of rent. As I was suiting up two young girls, perhaps five and seven years old, ran to the gate … Continue reading

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Colony inspections today

The first apiary I visited today was the one I’ve been setting up for a local charity. I’d taken a second brood box and spare roof as I knew the roof needed some repair work and I was kind of … Continue reading

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Time to move home

Well, not “move” so much perhaps, as to get a new one. It was a very pleasant morning this morning when the wind wasn’t blowing, so I decided to swap three colonies of bees from the boxes they were in … Continue reading

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