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  1. A relaxing saturday

    So things chug along quite merrily. If I have a complaint about my bees it's that they love gumming things up. I've seen it noted that Hoffman frames attract Brace comb and mine is certainly no exception. Still, that aside things seem to be progressing nicely. The first super is being nicely drawn and starting to fill up. Possibly a little ahead of schedule I've added a second super and started to cycle drawn comb into the top box and foundation down below. We've got a huge stack of foundation ...
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  2. a Chance to have a look around.

    Finally, finally, finally. Making the most of the lovely day to finally get my hands in the hive. Although my eagerness to get the lid off the hive was somewhat tempered by one of the neighbouring plot holders coming over to introduce herself and let us know she's prone to anaphylaxis from bee stings.

    It took all of 3 second once she made her way to the gates for the smoker to be lit and the suit to go on.

    So let's get the numbers out of the way, right now there's: ...
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  3. It's all going super...

    The wait for a full inspection continues, I'm either in the wrong place at the right time or it's just that little too nippy to want to take frames out for a leisurely look around and attempt at marking HRH.

    As I didn't treat with OA over the winter I stuck on an Apiguard tray a couple of weeks back thinking that despite it being a little cooler than the manual suggests that I'd still get a fair idea of how bad the mite levels are and knock a good few down. Monday evening we took ...
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  4. Open Sesame!

    A busy weekend all round. On Saturday I took a trip to what I hope is going to be my new apiary on a nature reserve. As they're holding regular work days at the moment to keep things under control I've been lending a hand too and one of the tasks this time around was to clear an area behind some brambles off the main path to make room for some beehives so it seemed rude to leave something being done for my benefit for everyone else to sort out.

    We cleared an area that is far bigger ...
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  5. Sassenach Beekeeper...

    As I was asked if I was going to do one this year I thought I'd inflict it on the Scottish Beekeepers. I did [try and] keep a blog last year, but actually sitting down and writing about stuff is frequently far less interesting than actually doing it. I wont rehash last year's shenanigans but at time of writing, my little colony of bees appears to have come through winter very well so I am going to tentatively announce that my aim from last year's beekeeping has been achieved: I didn't kill my ...
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