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Whilst we were away our apiary manager looked at the bees for us and recommended we feed them a bit more sugar solution. If forage is low we need to make sure that there is food available for the bees to build up for the …

since its summer the busiest bees in the hive are the workers. I didn’t realise until recently that there are 5 different types of worker bees. Though knowing this does mean that Bee Movie know makes more sense to me. It depends on age, different …

Did you know that bees roar? We opened the hive today after a long break in Scotland, where incidentally beekeeping is limited to mostly the mainland (goodness that sounded a bit like I was wearing an anorak then), and had the now familiar roar from …

Well, its been endoftermitis over here for us! We have been to all the events, end of term concerts, music exams (distinction, so proud), assemblies, sports days, my own assignment results (I passed by the way) and training for Ride London (not me, not on …

Well, you might have noticed that the blog is about the bees, mostly, but that there is a fair amount of juggling going on with work, family, etc etc. Alongside my first assignment which has been due ( I am doing a course) we have …

We went to see the bees today as we had to move the sugar solution away from them. Too much of that and the honey will taste a bit funny. Though of course this year we are unlikely to taste it ourselves so not sure …

So back on track with the bees, and they have been gobbling up the sugar solution. We visited them in the week to see how things were going and added in a bit more solution. I am so impatient to sneak a peek at what …

Bees have taken a slight back seat this week as we had a far greater challenge to complete. Yes, we entered to ring to take our places in the battle of ‘completing the Lego Card Collectors Book no matter what else you might have to …

We should have visited the bees today, just to check all is well, they have enough to eat, they are settling in, checking any problems with the neighbours etc etc, but we didn’t. Work got in the way today, plus it really is too hot …

Good news, we have a NUC! It arrived on Sunday at 9am at the apiary after the bees had been asked to come back earlier Saturday night for capture. Or at least that’s how I understand it. There are 10,000 of them, I’ve not counted, …