This week, I’ve got an exciting update on the mason bee saga. If you remember, I found four eggs on…
Introduction Heavy rain at last and the wildfires that raged on Dava moor, Moray and Speyside have gone out. Above…
Honey It’s been another of those exciting weeks when everything seems to happen at once. The local health food shop…
Introduction. It’s still cold, but very soon we will be assessing colony health, size and progress here in the Northern…
Introduction I wrote this for BeeCraft’s Cyclopedia series but they already had an article lined up for “E” so this…
December was eventful and the first few days were busy nursing a poorly pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) that a friend…
Introduction. As a novice observation hive beekeeper, this is only my second attempt at overwintering a tiny colony, I’m trying…
Teaching Apiary. Do you belong to a beekeeping association that has its own meeting room and apiary, or perhaps just…
At last, we are at the end of a long dry spell broken by heavy rain. But temperatures are still…
We’ve had some really hot weather (at least for us) over the past week with the temperature reaching at least…