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My girls are getting a little - well some of them only as they seem to have found Himalayan Balsam a good distance away. Ivy nectar has not started...

Yup just got all mine back from North Yorks Moors. Yield down this year, mainly because the flow finished very abruptly mid-August. Most unusual,...

It was 20 degC around Aberdeen yesterday afternoon if my car thermometer is to be believed - bees very active and I've noticed they have lost the...

Busy getting bees down from the Angus glens this weekend, with a real nip in the air and some bell heather still in flower. I am always looking out...

I thinks its a counter recording the number of visits to the site, each time you reload the page it increases by one count, doubt if it started from...

So final taking off of the honey today. Absolutely no heather honey to be seen in any of the hives. This was pretty much as I had expected as we...

Great. I'm glad she survived, Jambo.

This spring I inspected after a few weeks of cold weather and the nucs had no pollen and hence little open brood. The large colonies were OK as they...

Thanks Kitta - managed a look today and delighted to find her there and now a big hive of docile bees. Although I think I took the right action in...

Mine have been busy last few days - not a lot of pollen but I think a good lot of nectar. Lots of asteraceae in flower all over the place, and...

Perhaps Greengumbo can tell us!

If the activity at the front of my hives this week is anything to go by, my drone count will soon be zero.;)

I checked a couple of hives on Monday and noticed plenty of pollen in brood frames. As long as it doesn’t go mouldy it should give them a good start...

Nice packaging on their honey as well. Cool website but pity about that Einstein quote. PS What's with the 'bee count' at the top of the page...

The Scottish Bee Company were on Good Morning Scotland today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/b0bhrhk1 You’all find it at 2:43:50 I never new...

Not started treatment yet as just bringing hives back from the moors. Drop counts (inaccurate I know) have been extremely low, so expecting to find...

Hi DR ... Interested in your "In stages so they store it away from the broodnest" comment. I presume you mean if they get it all at once they pack...

Not one of mine ... mine refuse to go "Norf of the river". However, I've now completed my treatments and mite levels remain vanishingly low. ...

a bee landed on my knee resting, at the beginning of the week , with a varroa on its back Sent from my LIFETAB_S1034X using Tapatalk

bees coming in white from balsam feeding started for those that need it (sugar syrup) B&M Farmfoods both 50p/kg In stages so they store it away...

Our bees bringing in bright orange pollen to but no Gordonia hereabouts. That’s about all they are bringing in. Removed 9 supers and hardly 1 super...

Gordonia pollen looks to be orangey yellow. From someone's Flickr account. I was seeing a flow yesterday in Fife only a mile or two away...

Pale yellow and light brown ... could well be (I'm colourblind). I had to look up Gordania, thanks. St Andrews bees could reach the botanic gardens...

Swarming undoubtedly helps get rid of mites. The swarm leaves with about 25-30% of the entire mite population (which is perhaps surprising when you...

Some comment that a brood break (swarming) helps bees rid themselves of (reduce levels of) varroa. If bees tend to remove some of the varroa whilst...

True - but I am reporting what I have read (somewhere) which might have been someone else's mad ramblings rather than science!

In Dundee there looked like a flow was on at the weekend and not balsam, pale yellow and light brown pollen - seems a bit early for ivy, this time of...

I am not sure how one would modify a commercial - there's little to modify.

Loads of Balsam North West England ! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro