Making 5 frame Nucs, for 2020
you may remember a while back I made a couple of queen castles to use next year, to hopefully raise our own queens, if that is a success,...
removing Bees from honey boxes
so last week I removed the first lot of leysdown honey, everything went smoothly, apart from removing the bees from the actual box, we...
A day full of Bees
So this weekend gone was a hot one here on Sheppey, but I had planned on checking the bees at the new second out apiary, so went ahead...
2nd out apiary
S o yesterday I moved five hives from the allotments to the new 2nd out apiary, these were all swarms caught over the last ten days, one...
It's all go, being a Beekeeper
So I had a swarm to collect from Louise that was boxed up at the weekend, as I was driving back to the allotments, I had a call, a swarm...
Lots of Bees
so after collecting a swarm last week, it got more hetic, but in a good way, I recieved a message of a swarm in the next village, and...
Feeding the new bees
added some sugar syrup to the new bees, changing the bait in waasp trap,
1st swarm call out in kent
so yesterday I had a call from a friend, three swarms on his garage and did I want them, I jumped in the car, but only had two spare...
hive manipulation
so my first inspection of the year, and I knew I wanted to do, some might think quite radical hive manipulatioons. Firstly the langstroth...
