The Biggest Challenge In Beekeeping?
If I Had A Magic Wand... I have put together a brief survey of my…
Category: Beekeeping
Practical Tips About Queens
New virgin queen Finding, Marking and Introducing Queens As any regular reader of my blog…
Bringing In The Honey
Honey extractor How We Harvested Honey This Year That's it; we have finally finished extracting…
Murphy’s Law Applies To Bees
Kieler mating nucs Some Of My Beekeeping Mistakes Murphy's Law - "If anything can go…
Latest Events Of Note
Chickens in a tree Latest Walrus News I don't know why, but this tickled me.…
Have I Lost My Queen?
Where's the brood gone? They Are Not Necessarily Queenless When I was a beginner beekeeper,…
Treatment Free Beekeeping
Photo by Maja Dumat - CC BY 2.0 Risky To Go Against NBU Advice The…
Winter Oxalic For Survival
Oxalic acid How Many Varroa Mites In The Hive? The point of this article is…
Summer in the apiary
New queens in cages with attendant workers Swarming Is Finished, Now What? Phew, it looks…
Successful Queen Mating
Kieler Mating Nucs Best Time For Queen Mating Flights The problem with beekeepers is that…
Varroa Mites Are Lurking
Varroa mites cause the death of more colonies than most people admit - here I discuss a summer mite check, if only for peace of mind.
How I Make Queens
One of my lovely queens with quite light coloured bees Grafting, Cell Builders And Mating…