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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…
Beekeeper’s Notes: Shock At Colony Losses
Hugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon Beekeepers in Surrey have been reporting 30%, and higher, losses of honey bee colonies and they are shocked and confounded as to why it…
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…
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