Introduction. The weather warmed up during the last week of April with temperatures soaring to 16 and 18°C. The bees…
Sugar shake tests, or alcohol washes; what’s your method? Until a couple of weeks ago, I thought that sugar shake/roll…
Introduction. At last, a proper old-fashioned winter with cold days and deep snow on the hills. Over the last week…
Planning Ahead. What have I learned this season? I ask myself this at the end of every bee season and…
The Week’s Event: Equipment Show Bee-buddy Cynthia drove us into Inverness last Saturday to visit the first beekeeping equipment show…
We reach the end of April and the weather is still too cold for opening the hives for regular colony…
Wild Bees. The wild bees I found a couple of years ago are thriving and I’ve never seen them so…
The Week. This first week of January brought winter snow to the hills and uplands and a hard frost everywhere.…
Better Weather. I’m writing on another gloriously sunny day on the 114th day of the most peculiar year in our…
The beginning of this week was fine enough to get beekeeping jobs done before the temperature dropped below 10 degrees…