Re-queening Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/re-queening/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:25:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Re-queening Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/re-queening/ 32 32 2696646 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 Well Bee-hived Bees https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/06/well-bee-hived-bees/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/06/well-bee-hived-bees/#respond Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:43:52 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=8160 That was nice, a hive inspection without any surprises. I’ve just been out to inspect both hives and the bees were particularly well behaved. Anna was at work and Morgan at school but we needed to check on the hives so I did it on my own today. Maybe having just one person inspect them...

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