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Beekeeper’s Notes: The Weatherman Says Spring Is Here
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon Beekeepers are talking about the first inspection of the hives after the winter. It won’t be for a couple of weeks yet. It’s still…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Critical Time For Bees
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon It is a quiet time of the year for bees and beekeepers. The current talk is about how our colonies are doing in the…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Bargain Hunt
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon I spent a couple of hours today (December 29) online at the sales of a long established beekeeping equipment company, Thornes. Some of the…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Link Between The Wonder Of Plastics And Guildford Association’s Chairman
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon A tenuous link coming up, with a couple of things from last week. I was looking at a plastic spout that had come adrift…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Is Too Much Urban Beekeeping a Bad Thing?
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon It’s a very quiet time of the beekeeping year. Time for a bit of reading and a report from the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Honey Better Than Antibiotics And David Beckham Takes Up Beekeeping
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon I still find it a wonder to see the golden liquid coursing from the extractor when we harvest the honey from our hives. The…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Wasps On The Rampage Again
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon The wasps are at it again. Desperate for food in the last knockings of their short existence, they are investigating anything sweet and sticky…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Honey Down From Last Year
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon It isn’t the reason why most people keep bees but having the honey at the end of the season does help. And the amount…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Bees Hit The Headlines With Singing Queens
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon Bees were hitting the headlines in the past month with news that emerging queens were tooting and quacking to communicate with the worker bees.…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Perfection Of The Comb
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon It’s been a funny year so far. Sunshine well above average with April in the running for the sunniest since Met Office records began…
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