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Greetings from sunny Spain, just a photo of a bee working a potted Hyacinth, Oh, and the swallows landed here on the 19th of February,

Greetings, Happy to report that due to the mould problem is now being taken care of due to the sunny days we are having at the moment, all three hives are very active zooming to and fro with nectar and pollen, we even have bees loaded with pollen stopping off to sip the nectar, many thanks for...

Greetings , I have just inspected our hives after a week of wet weather which is highly unusual in our part of Spain, two of the hives are just starting to build up but the third one has very little brood and there is mould on one of the combs, is it anything to worry about ? Just on my way...

Greetings from sunny Spain, At work today my better half took this photo of a Preying Mantis eating a wasp, this summer we have seen very few wasps over here,

Greetings from sunny spain, Anyone know what this one is ?

Greetings from sunny spain, we were cutting back an overgrown garden today, I have never seen as many bees on one plant,

happy new year from sunny spain. Our bees are busy with Lavander ,aonium, and malephora, we have two Borage plants just coming into flower and as yet the bees have not found them.

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, 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.

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...

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

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

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

Greetings, its half past midnight here and I have just returned with our hives which we had to take to an out apiary, question! would it be okay to make an inspection tomorrow or would it be better to let them settle for few days, the day time temps are running at about 30C with wall to wall...

Greetings from sunny spain, Happy to report that the swallows nesting on the timber beam in our sun terrace now have five eggs to look after, last year they never built a nest. We also have a great spotted cuckoo in the neighbours false pepper tree, which is in full flower so,happy bees.

Greetings from sunny spain, On the second of April I made a split from our best hive, 3 frames of mixed brood and one of stores, Then filled up with wired foundation, on the last inspection 3rd May there were no eggs visible to my rather unreliable eyes, it has been doom and gloom since that...

Greetings, We are visiting Dubrovnik and there are bees covering the hillsides, working the rosemary and broom, on the outskirts of the old town they are busy with orange blossom and wisteria, even managed to spy an apiary of twelve hives with three supers on, Q old town is awesome if you...