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    Lol, let's not squabble but instead pat each other on the back for making the effort to get to the heather and also sharing any insights we might have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beeforben View Post
    Seasonal / yearly variance aside, when would anyone in the glen clova area suggest bringing their bees back from their heathery holiday? Doing some tree maintenance / hedge planting in and around the apirary and could do with an date to the nearest week as I've never taken bees to the hills before....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beeforben View Post
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    Some time in September. Depends.

    An early frost or a medium term forecast of poor weather and you might as well bring them home. Delay a couple of weeks and they'll come to no harm though the clock is ticking for Varroa control, a last burst of winter bee rearing and to some extent winter feeding but Murray has shown that can be done remarkably late. Most beekeepers would aim for the first or second week of September although one recent year exceptionally had a significant flow in the third week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poly Hive View Post
    I heard it stated with confidence that when the heather pollen rose in clouds whilst walking through it, that was it over, time to move the hives home.

    Anyone agree or otherwise?

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    There's a reference to this in Willie Robson's 'Reflections on Beekeeping'.

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    Not a book I have so was he saying it was so or saying it was not pease?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poly Hive View Post
    Not a book I have so was he saying it was so or saying it was not pease?

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    I gave my copy away, along with so much else related to bees, this last year, but as I remember (and I stress that I may be wrong on this) he says the opposite. I'm sure that someone here will have a copy to check with.

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    So - when the gamekeeper's wife sends you an image (!) and she knows her stuff. And all you can see is a super of cut comb heather honey hanging on a tree.
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    Gravity works in mysterious ways North of the Tay ...

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    Is the heather over? Not the flowering but the flow.

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