National honey monitoring scheme

[Curly green finger's]

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Doesn't look promising for samples from the East, South-east or South-west of England. Welsh beeks and West Midlands stand a good chance.

Where did you get the graphs from?

 

[hemo]

Ive had a look and I can't see mine has been archived, it says sugar sample complete and incomplete sample pack which hasn't been sent out.
Does this mean theres a chance I will get my pollen chart??

I expect if you don't see an email this week then you may be one of the fortunate ones to get the results next year.

 

[North End Bees]

Ive had a look and I can't see mine has been archived, it says sugar sample complete and incomplete sample pack which hasn't been sent out.
Does this mean theres a chance I will get my pollen chart??

Good chance

 

[North End Bees]

Where did you get the graphs from?

Webinar

 

[Curly green finger's]

Webinar

Ok cheers

 

[Curly green finger's]

Has anyone else received there results today I've put mine on my blog.

 

[Newbeeneil]

I got the results from one of mine. The other 2 apiaries were not tested for pollen.

 

[North End Bees]

Mine wasn't tested. I just got the 2km radius environment pie chart.

 

[Curly green finger's]

I got the results from one of mine. The other 2 apiaries were not tested for pollen.

Mine confirms that our highest apiary managed to get to the rape considering it was 4 miles away... It was a lovely spring last year

 

[mintmoth]

Mine was a July sample, no OSR at all around here last year except the odd roadside weed. The honey came out as mostly bramble and white clover, plus various wild and garden flowers/tree flowers, but also with, intriguingly, a dash of Java plum or jambolan, and also caylusea abyssinica, a native of East Africa. Evidently my bees went on holiday even if the rest of the country was in lockdown!

 

[Beegarden]

Has anyone else received there results today I've put mine on my blog.

Yes, I did today too. Four brassicas made up 85% of my samples, turnip (pres OSR), cabbage, mustard and one unnamed. The other 18 taxa included Magnolia, Berberis, Cherry laurel, Sycamore, Ceanothus, Wallflower and Wood forget-me-not. Busy little bees!

 

[Curly green finger's]

Yes, I did today too. Four brassicas made up 85% of my samples, turnip (pres OSR), cabbage, mustard and one unnamed. The other 18 taxa included Magnolia, Berberis, Cherry laurel, Sycamore, Ceanothus, Wallflower and Wood forget-me-not. Busy little bees!

Im going take a July sample this year three tubes to fill one for pesticides this time.
I found it interesting that there was eucalyptus in mine.
Since last year some one has bought a property close by and stripp

Yes, I did today too. Four brassicas made up 85% of my samples, turnip (pres OSR), cabbage, mustard and one unnamed. The other 18 taxa included Magnolia, Berberis, Cherry laurel, Sycamore, Ceanothus, Wallflower and Wood forget-me-not. Busy little bees!

Eucalyptus was the one I was surprised about, I now realise that there is 1 big eucalyptus tree locally behind the apiary where I took the sample .
I've got my sample pack for my july/August sample I want to see what this might be I've had this sort of honey in August before.

 

[Antipodes]

Im going take a July sample this year three tubes to fill one for pesticides this time.
I found it interesting that there was eucalyptus in mine.
Since last year some one has bought a property close by and stripp



Eucalyptus was the one I was surprised about, I now realise that there is 1 big eucalyptus tree locally behind the apiary where I took the sample .
I've got my sample pack for my july/August sample I want to see what this might be I've had this sort of honey in August before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_cordata
And a Tasmanian one to boot. A little bit of Tassie in your apiary...

 

[Nannysbees]

There’s a CD that goes with the book - used it to help identify the pollen in my honey. Here’s pollen from my honey at home - heather, thistle, rosebay willow herb, and balsam. Beautiful to see under the microscope

Brilliant, I love those photographs

 

[Beegarden]

Fingers crossed, Mark. During some earlier correspondence with Dr Oliver last year, it was noted that many, many more Summer samples are received, which means less chance of being chosen. In Norfolk returns are high, but your sample may be more useful where you live.