Recent content by Antipodes

Looking great. I can't zoom into the photos ... Perhaps she is so obvious you are not expecting us to need to?

Sounds like a good colony. Some spring honey to sell too (at a premium perhaps).

I know. I must organise something like that.

Hide tool. I misplaced mine about half a dozen times at an apiary on Wednesday. I got dizzy going round and round looking for it:censored:

One of the toughest trees here in drought is actually the English Oak and to a lesser extent the Hawthorn. The oak surprises me, as they don't look to me like something that would be drought hardy.

That's the way. I'm the same. The more they cut, the more I plant!

At another site today, and no brood at all...not even an occasional cell with a bee about to emerge. Pleasingly a fair quantity of stores at this site, I suppose because they cut back on brooding so early with the ground not wet for about seven months. The sweet briar look fairly lifeless, but...

Having helped themselves to some of my uncapped honey in stored frames, the ants were ensuring a balanced diet, feasting on this greater wax moth that was in the storage area too.

That would be tricky.:unsure:

Try a video on painting canvas stretching and corners perhaps? I've never seen felt or pond liner roof covering here. Sounds quite good.

If you've never looked in an unmanaged hive it's quite interesting to see first hand what the bees get up to, so it may be worth it from that perspective at least.

Checking hives for varroa and for stores. It's just too dry. No brood now. The dry is helping this hoppy blend in well though. The grasses behind are Lomandra longifolia, many parts of which are edible.

Laugh Kookaburra, laugh.

It wasn't particularly like anything I'd ever tasted before.

I did taste some from a queen cell once. It had an unusual flavour.