{"id":15923,"date":"2014-04-01T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15923"},"modified":"2014-04-01T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:15:50","slug":"spring-beehive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/spring-beehive\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring in the Beehive"},"content":{"rendered":"

With temperatures ‘soaring’ to 19.3\u00baC at the weekend it was a perfect opportunity to take another look at the bees and carry out a hive inspection.<\/p>\n

Pollen<\/h2>\n

We had no real reason for doing so other than the fact that we are itching to get started with some proper beekeeping this year. The hives were looking busy from the outside with bees coming and going from both of them and those returning to the hives were bringing in lots of bright orange and yellow pollen with them, It’s never easy to identify exactly what plants this pollen is derived from, but I’m thinking that the bright orange pollen is probably from dandelions and the bright yellow is from willow. There is certainly a fair amount of willow around this area, and the bright orange of dandelion is quite distinctive.<\/p>\n\n\t\t