A Crazy May
The May that has just finished has been the strangest in my beekeeping experience so far. Going from a warm April to a cold wet May the...
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Ben the Beekeeper
- May 25
- 1 min
Swarm Collecting
May through to July is the honey swarming season. When a colony is large enough it will reproduce by raising a new queen, with the old...
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Ben the Beekeeper
- Apr 3
- 2 min
First Inspections of 2021
Last week the temperatures hit 15 degrees so it was finally warm enough to open up the hives and have our first look inside to see how...
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Ben the Beekeeper
- Mar 21
- 2 min
March in the Apiary
March is the month when beekeepers start to get excited about the new season. The temperature picks up and the bees start to become...
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Ben the Beekeeper
- Mar 4
- 1 min
First signs of Spring
As we enter March it is still early in the year but we are starting to see the first signs of Spring. Lots of early bulbs, Snowdrops and...
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Ben the Beekeeper
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
What happens to the bees during the winter?
Honeybees survive the winter as a colony, over the Autumn the number of bees in the hive reduces to about 20,000, and they will work...
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Ben the Beekeeper
- Jun 29, 2020
- 1 min
The honey flow is on!
Bees produce honey from nectar they forage from flowers. Our bees have two main periods of production each year, firstly around April...
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