lol. When I find one of THOSE basking on a hive roof in the summer I'll be heading to Orkney :).
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lol. When I find one of THOSE basking on a hive roof in the summer I'll be heading to Orkney :).
Well ventured a quick peek in the hives today. A little nippy really but wanted to clear the floors. Two hives fine, queens seen and brood so closed up again nice and quick. One looks like it's not long for this world, no queen in evidence, not many bees and what little brood is in there I suspect is old. Not much I can do at this stage but two out of three is better than last year.
Moved three hives to a new site last night. We ended up slightly later than expected so finished up, setting on stands and opening up, in the dark.
The site is on a nature reserve so will be interesting to see how it compares with my other out apiary further east which is much more agricultural.
Ironically though they've OSR closer on the new than the old site. We seem to have much less being grown around here this year. Is this a common change?
Was also told today that oil prices are lower so less profit margin ...