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Beekeeper’s Notes: Bees And Coronavirus
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon The beekeeping season has started again with a tentative look inside hives to check that all is ok. Some of the weaker colonies are…
Beekeeper’s Notes: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It?
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon I read recently that a ‘splatometer’ test in Denmark, a survey of insects hitting the car windscreen, showed an 80% decline in abundance since…
Beekeepers’s Notes: Colonies Not Making It Through The Winter
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon I had a quick look at my hives on a mild day in January and found that a couple of my hives, out of…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Bees Drunk Down-Under And Mead
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon We’ve made some mead this year for the first time. To our huge delight and surprise, it tasted good, came out beautifully clear and…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Feed Or Starve
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon I am sometimes asked if I feed my bees. The simple answer is that I feed them if they need it and I only…
Beekeeper’s Notes: The End Is Nigh
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon The end is nigh. Not of the world (we hope) or even Brexit (an OMG from me). It is the end of the beekeeping…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Getting Stung Where It Hurts Most
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon I was stung by a bee the other day and it hurt. The pain was so intense, I could do nothing for a few…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Spare The Wasps
Hugh Coakley Worplesdon beekeeper It’s coming to the end of the beekeeping season now. Honey has been taken from any hive that can afford to spare it and we are…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Meet Diana Jones, Beekeeper & Councillor
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon. Beekeepers love to chat with others about bees. And it was a great pleasure to talk to the new Green Party Guildford Borough Councillor,…
Beekeeper’s Notes: We Must Go Chemical Free ‘If Not Now, Then When?’
By Hugh Coakley, who keeps bees in Worplesdon Many people are shocked to learn that beekeepers routinely treat their bees with chemicals. They expect bees to be entirely natural. But…
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