It’s my winter vape, ten days after a few days of frosty weather
I would be doing mine next week if it wasn’t for the fact my InstantVap has gone wrong for the second time. I hope Duncan gets it back to me quicker than he did last time.
Heavens! What's wrong with it?
Same here with ivy. I was going to cut the hedge, but there were several bees on the ivy poking through the top.
Always fun to watch him get stung in the face!
Mine too.It’s currently 14 degrees here & my 3 home hives are very busy, I’ve observed pollen being taken into all 3 so far. In other news my car is peppered in bee poo.
Just because they need it for brooding, doesn't necessarily mean they'll start brooding just because there's a bit about, weather, temperature, day length, time of year all has an influence - bees aren't stupid, although they occasionally act daft
A trait for occasional complete randomness might work as an evolutionary advantage. If the weather into next season is very unusual the bees that have done something daft might make it through when others don't.
Lovely post, how young is your mam?I think I have one of those somewhere!
I had a box full of old photographs, some going back to the 1800's, but when I moved down the road to Brynmair they were somehow misplaced and I didn't realise until a few years later, that still plays on my mind.
One of the photographs was on a postcard as many were in those days and showed a cottage on a T junction called Carreg Issac, I didn't realise at the time but it was where my grandfather Arthur Jenkins was born in 1905 on the same farmland as Brynmair (both owned by cousins of my great grandfather) just a few hundred yards way from here but demolished in 1970 to widen the road for opencast traffic)
My mother is the custodian of hundreds of photographs from her side, and my stepfather's (as both families were close well before they married in their fifties they are relevant to us as well) and they are all packaged and labelled for me to rescue when she finally turns her toes - I've already had all the instructions, including the hymns she wants at the funeral.
I spoke to a cousin of mine not long ago - daughter of my father's first cousin whgo had absolutely loads of photographs from that side of the family as both her grandparents were from neighbouring farms going back to the mid early 1800's. When aunty Linda moved into a smaller place as she got older, she thought the photographs would be of no interest to anyone so burnt them all in the back garden
Is it just a one off at this time of year or a few treatments? Already treated with apiguard in August and due to the mild weather going to vape, I usually treat more than a one off?
If your Autumn treatment was effective, you should only need a single vape
She was born early hours New Year's day 1943, the same delivery room and hospital where the first NHS baby, Aneira, was born five years later -(Glanaman hospital - donated to the community by the Follands was a publicly funded hospital way before the NHS). Our old doc always told the story of he was in dinner jacket and black tie for the delivery as he had to be called away from the hospital New Year's Eve dance.,
Although only 13 degrees at 1400 and damp overcast both of my colonies were active. Nothing much going inwards though. Maybe they are helping me manure my allotment
