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| There's honey for tea! |
| We have honey at last! We were so keey not to rob the bees of their honey last year and have been very patient but a bi-product of the shook swarms we have carried out over the last few weeks has been ...[more]
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| Posted on Tuesday 28 April 2009 - 18:51:00 |
| A new out-apiary |
| We had thought we'd move hive 4 from the garden to the new out-apiary once it was set up and we went through that colony today with that in mind. It's certainly in need of space and we wondered if w...[more]
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| Posted on Friday 05 June 2009 - 23:04:00 |
| And another one |
| We visited our two hives over at Green Lane today and, as expected, they've been busy and there are queen cells. This time we had gone prepared! We had our two travelling boxes ready in case we neede...[more]
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| Posted on Friday 29 May 2009 - 20:08:37 |
| A little lesson about shook swarms |
| On two of the shook swarms we have done recently we almost forgot to put the queen excluder under the brood box. We have always remembered in the end even if it meant lifting the bood box up after t...[more]
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| Posted on Tuesday 21 April 2009 - 16:14:27 |