Budding Cottage

The construction continues as I build up a supply of supers and brood boxes for emergencies and to be more set up for next year. Dad has built from scratch a national hive, and painted it white.  It now has pride of place in the field awaiting any possible swarms for next year.  In the […]

So, Hives B and C….the two swarms that are so different. Hive B has for some time worried me because it had the varroa problem and was so slow to develop.  The queen was lovely and placid and the bees nice, if fidgety, but they did not thrive.  So a course of thymol should have […]

It has been two weeks since I managed to catch up with the girls – so time to check what they had been up to. First good news in the Pagden hive (Hive D) – there is brood and looks like a queen is in place and laying.  What a relief. They are busy filling […]