Tag: love bees
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We ❤️ Stationary
It’s National Stationary Week! These are the latest additions to my stationary dream list (inspired by love for 🐝): Deluxe 2019 Seed Calendar – Wildlife Edition (No longer available) by Seedlings Cards & Gifts£30.00A beautiful calendar that helps you build a beautiful garden all year round! A bit late in 2019 for me to be…
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#022 Happy bee, happy me!
It seems like January is flying by, as though everything and everyone is running away from the end of 2018. Was it that bad? It’s either that, or…
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#020 Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all! I hope you have had a great holiday break with lots of love, food and of course presents! Not surprisingly, several of my presents were heavily bee-related which in turn instantly triggered my inner bee-chatter to be released upon those around me. (Sorry! not sorry…) The biggest gift of all…
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#019 Curious Kat
My obsession with observing my hive has obviously started with the appearance of Deformed Wing Virus and with my anxiousness on whether this will detrimentally affect my hive over the winter. I now visit the hive every day, spend about 3 minutes completing the standard checks and then another 40 or so minutes just staring…
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#018 Lose Some, Save some
No, the situation has not improved since I have last posted an update. Yesterday’s mini inspection showed the same symptoms: Four bees seen with deformed wings; the varroa count on the board was 210 (over two days!); one wasp spotted (pathetically) trying to enter the hive and; the weight of the hive seemed O-K. …
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#016 Autumn Inspections
10th of September 2018. That is the date of the last update that I have shared with you on my beehive. Four inspections have passed in between, but they were only mini ones. The inspections from now on, only really involve a varroa mite drop count on the board, hefting and observing the activity at…
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