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- Lincolnshire, UK
- Hive Type
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- Number of Hives
- 5
Wonderful. They were on Welsh weather news tooWell I was standing next to one of my hives and the sky was doing this earlier. Nacreous clouds. Amazing.
Lasted about 20 minutes before the sun dropped lower and the regular clouds rolled in.
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How is the season going antipodes,we don’t have many on here from your neck of the earth posting about the honey flows .It's here already...the morning is bright and fine, but of course it is the longest day of the year down here. I don't like the longest day, it gets here too quickly and then it's all downhill. Anyhow, I look forward to the updates over there as the flowers start to appear.
Not too bad Curly. Some spring honey because some gums flowered and it was a mild winter. Then it got too dry and still is. Bursaria spinosa is flowering now and should yield a bit, then leatherwood in the forests. All over end of FebruaryHow is the season going antipodes,we don’t have many on here from your neck of the earth posting about the honey flows .
Pitisporum family excuse the spelling we have a few variety’s over here which I use to like using as specimen shrubs , does it grow wild where you live?Not too bad Curly. Some spring honey because some gums flowered and it was a mild winter. Then it got too dry and still is. Bursaria spinosa is flowering now and should yield a bit, then leatherwood in the forests. All over end of February.
Yes, spot on mate and thanks! It's the shrub/tree with the white flowers in the attached little video.Pitisporum family excuse the spelling we have a few variety’s over here which I use to like using as specimen shrubs , does it grow wild where you live?
Hope you get some overnight rain to help with the flows and February is an age away when there’s honey to be gathered by the bees
How’s swarming been this season?
Bon voyage!Today checked all hives and added nylon on top. Still all alive and kicking. Too warm, bees flying all day. Even one bumblebee landed on my chest to rest a bit.. Now won't see them for some roughly 2 weeks, going on some visit to France..
Is this one of the double brood colony’s that you’ve weighed recently?Checked on my garden hive today and amazed to see they still have a huge cluster (at least it looks unusually large to me?)
I guess I better keep a close eye on this one as they’ll be munching through their stores quicker than the others…
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No they’re single brood. My other three colonies have a much smaller cluster, maybe a third of the size of this one. Not sure if this one is unusually big or if the others are on the small size…? Maybe it’s the type of bee? They’re all swarms that arrived in my bait hive but the big colony does seem to have bees that are less dark in colourIs this one of the double brood colony’s that you’ve weighed recently?
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