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End of another beekeeping year
The beekeeping summer ends with honey extraction. It’s followed by preparing the bees for winter…
Tag: beekeeping
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Preparing the bees for winter
Keeping bees is a delicate balance. You have to expect them to do the unexpected…
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Swarming bees
Swarming is instinctive. Survival is hard wired into the honeybee’s genetics. If the time is…
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How to recognise an Asian hornet
In a world full of threat and danger, it would be easy to bypass the…
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Getting stung when I should know better
Several stings on the front of my neck have given me a triple chin to…
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Bees have been doing it themselves for millenia
Beekeeping is a constant process of thought and reflection on what might have gone wrong.…
Something for everyone – films about bees
Long sunny afternoons on the allotment are already this year’s memories. Winter is coming, and…
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should have tanged the swarm…
Last year I had a colony swarm within a few weeks of it arriving on…