Beeless again

I went to see how the bees were coming along the other day. What did I find? Nothing, no bees, no brood, no stores …no sign of them replacing the queen, a completely empty hive. The problem is that because my hives were wiped out last winter I could only summon one colony. I was [...]

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An update on the bees!

Well, the last colony just dwindled to nothing. The queen seemed to dissapear into thin air and the numbers dropped rapidly.
The last few months have been very depressing, after a great deal of effort I now have 1 very small colony, consisting of 3 frames!
I currently have them in a nuc and fed them today [...]

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Colony collapse disorder

Its ages since I put anything on my Blog.  Several reasons for this
1) I am selling my house!
I was all set to move when the stupid man who was buying pulled out at the point of exchange.  People kept saying it was because he was from South Africa that he gave me such a rotten [...]

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Springtime with the bees

I went to check my hives today, one of the colonies had died. I put some fondant in prior to the snow and the other two colonies survived but this one didnt. It was always the weakest colony. Its rather surpising that any of them got through the recent cold snap. I will put in [...]

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Propolis

I read a very interesting book a couple of months ago about the health benefits of propolis. I am usually slightly skeptical about amazing health claims but these are well researched. The problem with propolis is you can’t patent it, so the drug companies are not interested….and it’s the drug companies that fund the vast majority [...]

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My sunflowers are enormous!

I am not sure why……but they are much bigger than everyone elses and I didn’t feed them. I put it down to chicken poo…….I tried to take some photos today but the sun was in the way, in the end I got this one…its slightly on the turn, but if I tell you I am [...]

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