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Fourth summer in Devon and a farm shop has asked me for cut comb honey, which apparently sells for silly money here. I've only ever extracted. I've put a super of fresh f…
First year, two hives, Yorkshire. The retired chap two fields over lost his only colony a few weeks back and just told me over the fence that it 'dwindled and stank a bit…
For the data nerds: my scale hive in Skåne gained 1.3–2.1 kg a day for eighteen straight days through the lime and late clover. Then on the night of the 17th the graph ju…
Hi, Should I add sugar to my hive?
One of my three Kent colonies quietly superseded in late June — I found the old marked queen gone, one opened supersedure cell mid-frame, and yesterday, finally, eggs and…
First year, one hive, Minnesota. It hit 34C here today with awful humidity and when I got home from work there was a beard of bees the size of a dinner plate hanging off …
Third year, 6 hives in the NC piedmont. My club teaches sugar roll because 'you don't kill bees', but I've been reading that sugar shakes recover maybe 80–90% of the mite…
Second year keeping bees here in İzmir and I finally feel brave enough to mark my queens. I bought a set of Posca pens but now I'm second-guessing which colour I'm suppos…
Devon, 4th year, 6 hives. Lovely problem to have: most of my supers are capped or nearly, but the club extractor is booked solid until the second week of August and I'm n…
Retrospective thread! Last spring I started with one package and one nuc, side by side in the same Vermont yard, partly as an experiment. Now feels like a fair time to co…
Perthshire, 9 hives, mite loads creeping to where I want formic on before the heather. Deciding between the two label options for Formic Pro: both strips at once for 14 d…
Jalisco highlands, 12 hives on low stands. Three mornings in a row now I've found the same scene at two hives: little scratch marks on the landing boards and around the e…
The basswood (linden/tilleul) around my yard in the Eastern Townships opened about July 3rd and it has been an absolute event — you can HEAR the trees from 20 meters, and…
North Carolina, 3rd year, 5 hives. My best colony is packing nectar into the brood boxes instead of the supers. Two supers on above a queen excluder — top one basically u…
Skåne, 12 hives, and we're mid-way through a decent flow. In a few colonies the brood nest is shrinking as the bees cap honey in the outer brood frames — classic backfill…
One of my six hives has turned genuinely nasty over the last month — followed me 30 meters to the shed last week, stings through the suit, neighbors starting to comment. …
İzmir, second year, 3 hives on a wooden stand in the garden. This morning I found a proper ant highway going up one stand leg and straight into the back seam of my weakes…
Finally built the solar melter I've been talking about for two years, and Alentejo sun turns out to be extremely good at this job. Build: plywood box painted matte black …
Ontario, second year, 4 hives. One colony has been queenless for a while — my fault, a requeen attempt failed and by the time I admitted it they were down to maybe 3 fram…
Caught a lovely prime swarm on June 6th here in Kent — big one, filled a skep. Hived it on a mix of drawn comb and foundation and it has gone like a rocket: two deep boxe…
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