A single hive harvest. I have been amazed this month by one honey harvest in particular; this started as a large colony in March and I added extra boxes to accommodate the expansion. I took 20lb early in the year from the spring harvest, mainly Oil Seed honey which is […]
Bee Watch – Honey and Wax – End of July
We have meandered through bee related events since Easter, tracking the seasonal forage and varied diet of honey bees and which forage is shared with bumble bees, other solitary bees, hover flies and other pollinators; all making the continuous presence of diverse seasonal food sources (forage) very important for bees, […]
Bee Watch – End May – What’s Good For Bees?
We have been looking at successive plants which bees forage upon through the year with cotoneaster just ending here, fruit trees have mostly flowered and been pollinated as have Rowen, some Sycamore is still in flower, as is chestnut and blackberry is getting close to flowering. We move forward from […]