Budding Cottage

As a beginner, it was with a small amount of trepidation and some excitement that I greeted the chance of having the LAN group come and visit my little apiary, and to meet the fabled Dave Sutton, Regional Bee Inspector. Hive B: We started by looking at the swarm I captured from Malvern on 8 […]

A visit to the bees today during a sunny patch of the day.  I wanted to check their sugar syrup levels, which I had topped up last week.  Sure enough they were guzzled dry. Hive A were busy drawing comb in their first super.  I didn’t check the brood box as they seemed very busy […]

One of my friends, Chris, had been given some free-bees.  However, he had to move them urgently due to their previous keepers moving house. I volunteered some space for the hive to sit with us, with the added bonus of being able to practise on someone else’s bees before my own arrived. Chris checked the […]