Like most beekeepers, I don’t leave home during swarm season. Quite a few years ago now I was on top…
Introduction. Regular readers will remember Andrew’s guest blog from last year. Known also as Mac, due to being called Mark…
Ann’s tour of the south. I’m away from home for a week visiting friends in Ayrshire and Dumfries & Galloway…
Introduction. A few years ago on one of my visits to the US, I was shown around the bee lab…
Spring. I can confidently say we’ve reached late spring here in this corner of Nairnshire. The weather is still variable…
Andrew Card (Mac) has kindly contributed to this week’s blog with an account of the swarm control method that works…
At last we have a warm enough day to get the solar wax extractor out and process some cappings and…
June arrives in a blaze of sunshine and enough heat to raise the thermometer above 20 degrees C. The nuclei…
End of May Roundup. Welcome to all new subscribers who joined the regular Beelistener blogs this month, and to the…
With slightly warmer weather this week, the supers are filling with nectar, at long last. From the cabbagey odour and…