I’ve been doing some more playing around with the Visme infographic maker and produced these as a little reminder for myself of some ‘bee maths’. Memorising the number of days it takes for ...
https://adventuresinbeeland.com/2024/02/24/bee-maths-infographics/
I’ve been playing around with Visme and made this infographic, based on hive count data from the National Bee Unit. This data is based on voluntary data supplied by UK beekeepers, so is likely ...
https://adventuresinbeeland.com/2024/02/20/bee-hives-infographic/
Notes from a talk by Dr Stephen Fleming – co-editor of Beecraft magazine; he keeps his bees on Watership Down. Back in October Stephen spoke to a group of us gathered for the Cornwall Beekeeper...
https://adventuresinbeeland.com/2024/01/06/the-magic-of-drone-congregation-areas/
It’s been a long time. A lot has happened. I’ve moved house. I’ve sold my bees, caught a swarm, given that away, nearly given up on bees completely, and then started going to meetings at my...
https://adventuresinbeeland.com/2023/07/09/back-to-beekeeping/
A couple of months ago, I put a bait hive out in my garden. An empty National brood box, apart from a dark old brood comb pushed to one side and some lemongrass oil smeared on the walls. Then I �...
https://adventuresinbeeland.com/2022/08/01/the-arrival-of-the-bees/
Some photos of the flowers I’ve seen out and about in Cornwall and in my garden over the last couple of weeks. I like to see what’s in flower and available for the bees. Below is my miniature...
https://adventuresinbeeland.com/2022/04/23/whats-flowering-now-cornwall-april-2022/
And so we’re in 2022… another year for us… but the first and only winter for my bees. Huddled in their nest, resting their wings, winter bees tend to live longer than summer bees. But still...
Some of my longer-term readers may remember that I had bees in my chimney stack. This had turned into a tricky problem, with quotes of £4,000+ to remove them and reseal the chimney. It wasn’t ...
I’d left some equipment behind in the old location I used to keep bees, and hadn’t got around to moving it yet. Some new visitors took advantage of this des res – a brood box with a few fra...
https://adventuresinbeeland.com/2021/07/19/an-unexpected-arrival/
A few weeks ago I moved my two little colonies in nuc boxes to a new location nearer to home. I’d never had to move bees before, so asked other beekeepers for tips beforehand and as luck would ...