Recent content by Bearhouse

That's really helpful, thank you :)

From everything that I have read and learned so far (so much and yet so little, I will never stop learning, hopefully), I understand that a lot of knowledge and understanding can be gained from proper observation of our bees. I love going out there and seeing what colour pollen they are bringing...

I have a chicken water feeder with moss in the bottom, but they prefer the murky water left in the creases of an old inside out compost bag!

That's useful to know, thank you.

Aside from being aware of the weight of the hive over winter and knowing whether or not they have used up the stores, is there any other way of ascertaining that it is stored syrup rather than spring honey?

Absolutely not the foggiest idea. I keep bees because I like them, not for the honey. Also I am a newbie. As my info on the left will tell you I have one hive.

They must be as special as mine are, because they have been foraging and coming back with huge pollen loads anywhere upwards of 11 degrees. I live in Wales, not sure we get to 18 degrees that often!

Just outside Hundleton. We have willow in the garden, and about 30-40 elm trees along our boundary. Amd dandelions in the lawn.

8+ frames of capped honey in a super that we left overwinter, it got quite light/ empty and is now being refilled at a rate of knots. The pollen has been going in for weeks and weeks so far....

Quote; Drex: Hope Bearhouse does not run into that problem Me too. I am simply running the same as my local association do, since that's where my bees came from.

I'm only a newbie, so I'm sure that others with more experience will have differing views, but if you run brood and a half like that, isn't it giving yourself a lot more work with every inspection? We overwintered our hive with a full super over the top, but have been in today and made sure...

Our first 'solo' inspection without our mentor! Lots of pollen going in, has been for a few weeks now. Found Queenie and marked her, v.chuffed with that for newbies. Re-instated queen excluder below the super with which they have over-wintered. It's stuffed full of honey. Watched several new...

as long as they're not mine that move house please ;)

'Traditional' in the sense that we make our own traditions. Not really interested in what Amazon and all the big corporations think we should be doing (and certainly made a point of not shopping on 'black friday', or today!). To us, it's about having our family together; there aren't very many...

Have fun! My eldest is there and she likes it.