Oxalic Acid This week a beekeeper in the Antipodes posted on social media about making oxalic acid and glycerine strips…
Introduction. Here we are officially in autumn and the first day is mellow and pleasant though the swallows are not…
Green for 2024. Green is the in colour for queens this year. I still have a couple from the end…
Here we are into February already after some variable weather in January here in the Scottish Highlands. We had a…
Home Owners Use More Pesticides. Did you know that home owners/householders generally use more pesticides per unit of land than…
David and I recently corresponded about the UK Government’s emergency authorisation for the use of a neonicotinoid to treat sugar…
Walking Through the Week. We’ve had a mixed wintry week of stillness with sparkling sunshine one day and raw thawing…
The apiary is shaded till the afternoon when the sun moves further west and out of the trees. For the…