Category: Beekeeping

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Bees in the Wind – The Joys of Coastal Beekeeping

After last nights excitement with the arrival of our first bee colony we were keen to see them get off to a good start today. Unfortunately for the bees, Ivor, our local katabatic wind kicked in and it was blowing at 40 knots all day. The bees did start venturing out at about 10 am...

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Undercover Beekeeping – Transferring from Nuc to Hive

Well, that wasn’t quite what we were expecting to do with our first nuc of bees, but when we collected them from Bill he seemed pretty insistent that we didn’t leave them in the nuc box for too long. He said they were packed in pretty tightly and needed to get out as soon as...

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It’s all happening this weekend

First up, it’s the Dyfi Enduro on Sunday. I’ve known about this for months, but that doesn’t mean that me or my bike is ready for it. However, I can’t get out of it now, I’ll just have to do the best I can and aim to enjoy it. It won’t be helped by the...

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Early Swarming Bees

This gorgeous spring weather, warm temperatures and the profusion of spring flowers and tree blossom seems to have been working wonders on the local honey bee colonies. We’ve yet to get our bees – they should arrive sometime in May, but we were at an Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association meeting on Thursday night and have been...

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Bee friendly garden

We’ve had another busy weekend in the garden here. The weather wasn’t great on Saturday but I got lots done. I had mowed the lawn on Friday so I had plenty of time to work on cleaning up a few things following on from the conservatory build. I then created a new flower border along...

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Beehive repairs

We haven’t got our bees yet, but already our hives have needed some repairs. We don’t know why but the plywood used for certain parts of them has started delaminating. It was external grade ply, but just wasn’t quite up to the job. Not to worry though, we bought some wood clamps and some glue...

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Aberystwyth Beekeepers Practical

The beginning of a new week already – It’s a shame the weekend had to end as it was a really lovely one here in West Wales. Clear blue skies, temperatures around 20ºC, light winds and not too busy. We got lots done in the garden and also attended an Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association practical session....

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More Beekeeping Equipment

I’ve just taken delivery of a very shiny bee-smoker. I think that’s everything we need now, except the bees of course, but they are due to arrive in May. We can’t wait to get started with our adventures in beekeeping now.

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Bee Supplies Galore

With the arrival of our new beehives last weekend, and the order of our new bees that should arrive in May, we thought we’d better order all the supplies and tools that we’ll need for our new adventure into the world of beekeping. Today a large parcel with a whole load of beekeeping supplies arrived...

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Aberystwyth Beekeepers Sale

We seem to be spending more and more time with the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association and this weekend ws no different. It was their annual bee equipment sale so we went along, taking my parents with us. As usual it was good to see everyone, have a chat and browse through a collection of new and...