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Greetings again, forgot to ask, at what temperature does honey granulate ? our bees were away from their normal foraging for six weeks and the honey we got spent most of its time in very cloudy almost granulated state, the flavour and colour were similar , we have very high temperatures would...

Greetings from sunny Spain, average temps running at 35/37 C in the shade! just been to watch the hive entrances , there were about five or six wasps making a nuisance of themselves trying to gain access but the guard bees were on top of their job and none were seen entering, last year the wasps...

Greetings from sunny Spain, the eucalyptus trees in a our area are just coming into flower and the bees have already found them, looking forward to some of the honey.

Greetings from thundery spain, the way I see it is that people seem to get confused with Prime and Primary,

It all sounds a bit fishy to me, Welcome, are you reading plenty of bee books.

greetings, it would seem that some people just don't like the little bit of mess the swallows leave behind, we feel honoured when our swallows build, and my better half places a small board on the floor under the nest to catch any droppings, Any comments Arfermo ???

forum police. Careful JBM, The forum police will be after you !!!!!!!!!!!

Greetings, the hungry snake came back this afternoon, we now have an empty swallows nest and two very confused swallows, On the plus side at 6.15 yesterday morning our bees were covering the false pepper tree next door, happy to see that I am not the only one to get up early for work.

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greetings from sunny Spain, The adult swallows nesting in our terrace were making a bit of a din this afternoon and when I went to investigate there was a snake in the nest helping itself to one of the chicks, I managed to get the snake down with a barbeque fork and released it in the garden...

how about this one , photos by Ruth.

greetings from rainy spain, the swallows in our sun terrace now have five chicks,

On the button there, The bees love them early in the morning and for the last hour of daylight, nectar and pollen.

Greetings, Looks like mountain ash from here.

anyone know ???????

Greetings, I don't know if swifts eat bees or not, but they zoom round the old churches in their hundreds over here, A spectacular sight and sound around dusk I am assuming they are hunting the midges and moths, The swallows nesting at our casa start feeding the chicks with miniscule flies to...

BeeJayBee, bang on, we have a couple of these and this is the first year I have seen them being worked.

Greetings from sunny Spain, Anyone know what tree this is ?

greetings, we use the spikey ends of the palm fronds, works a treat, in the uk we used rose prunings. at the moment we have a big problem with wild boar, I planted a big patch of borage three weeks ago and just as they were up to two true leaves along came the wild boar and mashed them into mush,

Greetings, 7.15 am and the honeysuckle outside the house is mobbed with bees, pale yellow pollen,