We are in the last week of June and today (22nd) we’ve had cold wind and rain coming from the east – whatever happened to ‘blazing June’?
Despite the atrocious weather we did have a well attended Moray Beekeepers meeting and Andrew Tassell gave an informative talk on varroa and then demonstrated the various methods of [...]
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June Update
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
May Update
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged honey, honeybees, queen rearing on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went into winter with 9 hives of bees, 6 Smiths and 3 Langstroths, and I managed somehow to get them all through into spring (I sold off my 3 Langstroth colonies in early April). Many of my beekeeping friends have lost colonies (some reports up to 100%, i.e. 16 losses out of 16, others up [...]
welcome
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is my second full season as a beekeeper and now that I have recovered from the shock of looking after 8 colonies of bees in my first year (I always bite off more than I can chew!) I now have time to keep a blog of my beekeeping adventures in the highlands of Scotland.
There are not [...]
