Queen Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/queen/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:05:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Queen Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/queen/ 32 32 2696646 Larvae Everywhere! https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/06/larvae-everywhere/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/06/larvae-everywhere/#comments Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:27:14 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=39676 It seems as though my somewhat experimental preemptive artificial swarm technique has, at least to a certain extent, worked. With only one colony surviving the winter we wanted to ‘make increase’ this year. The fact that this colony had taken up residence in a hive next to the bedroom window also meant that there weren’t...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/06/larvae-everywhere/feed/ 1 39676 Death of a Monarch https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/death-of-a-monarch/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/death-of-a-monarch/#comments Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:25:15 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=13906 There’s always something with those pesky bees! Today’s inspection turned into what we though was going to be the performance of an artificial swarm. The first hive we inspected had some queen cells in. All were uncapped but had some well developed larvae in them so there was only one thing to do. The plan was to find the queen, perform...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/death-of-a-monarch/feed/ 5 13906 A New Queen has Risen – What shall we call her? https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2012/06/a-new-queen-has-risen-what-shall-we-call-her/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2012/06/a-new-queen-has-risen-what-shall-we-call-her/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:09:01 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=10436 Things have been a little fraught on the bee-keeping front. The weather has been terrible for the bees. We seem to get one or two days where they can get out and fly, followed by 5-6 days of winds and rain that keeps them shut up in their hives. There just hasn’t been enough time...

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