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Flanders, sixth year, twelve hives. My summer honey — lime and clover mostly — has set solid in five 25 kg buckets and I have about 200 jars to fill before the first Chri…
After the mouse drama on Tuesday I want to do one final, proper look at all three colonies and then leave them alone. Galway, second year. Sunday is forecast dry and 14°C…
Ontario, second year, three hives. Extracted six mediums on Wednesday and now I have six wet supers dripping in my garage and two different pieces of advice. My neighbour…
Eight years in Provence and this is a first for me. One of my eight colonies — one of the strongest, three deep boxes of bees — has, over the last week, started producing…
First year in Minnesota, two hives, and I need someone to talk me off a ledge. We've had three days of cold rain, highs around 8°C, and this morning there were maybe 40-5…
Kent, third year, five colonies. Did my last proper inspection on Sunday in a warm spell and found something I've only read about: two laying queens in one hive. My green…
Third year in Uppsala, four hives, and I want to get the winter oxalic right this time. Last year I did an Api-Bioxal dribble by the calendar, mid-November, and my spring…
North Carolina, third year, four hives. Last full look yesterday before I mostly stop opening things, and one hive threw me. Three of my colonies kicked their drones out …
Spring in Mendoza has arrived hard — the almonds are done, the plums and peaches are out, the poplars are pushing pollen, and the phone started ringing this week: three s…
Fifth season in Małopolskie, ten hives, and I want to stop guessing this winter. Hefting has worked well enough, but I got a fright last March when a colony I'd hefted as…
I think I have ruined a whole bucket of honey and I want to know if any of it can be saved. İzmir, second year, four hives. I extracted at the end of August, in a hurry, …
Well. I was going to fit the mouse guards this weekend, and it turns out a mouse had the same calendar as me but got there first. Galway, second year, three colonies. Lif…
Second year in Vermont, three hives, and I'm confused about which mite number I should be aiming for right now. Ran Formic Pro in mid-August (two strips, 14 days, temps c…
First year in Yorkshire with two colonies and I think I've hit the limit on syrup. Started 2:1 (by weight, learned that lesson on this forum) on the 12th of September and…
Met Office has an amber wind warning out for Devon from Saturday night — gusts up to 70 mph on the coast, and my seven hives sit on an exposed field edge above the estuar…
Jalisco, ten years, and cut comb is my best margin at market — people pay double per kilo for it. This year I pulled my last comb frames late, off the end of the rainy-se…
Oregon, fifth year. My all-medium colony — the one I set up two years ago when my back started complaining — has lost its queen. No eggs for three weeks, no cells, a few …
İzmir, second year, two hives. In late August my big colony was filling three boxes — bees covering every frame, a beard on the front every evening. Yesterday they fit in…
Ontario, second year, three hives, and my garage is now a pile of sticky stuff: three metal queen excluders caked with propolis and burr comb, six medium supers of drawn …
North Carolina, third year. I made a late split in August with a mated queen I'd bought, and it's now a decent five-frame nuc: three frames of brood, two of stores, good …
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