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About Emily Scott

I am a UK beekeeper who has recently moved from London to windswept, wet Cornwall. I first started keeping bees in the Ealing Beekeepers Association’s local apiary in 2008, when I created this blog as a record for myself of my various beekeeping related disasters and - hopefully! - future successes.

September bees

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Emily Scott

The honey harvest is over and London temperatures are cool; since returning from San Diego at the end of August, where I wore shorts every day, my winter coat and scarf have already been pulled into action a couple of … Continue reading →

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Some good advice

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Emily Scott

Through the Facebook Beginner Beekeeper group I came across this link to recent advice by Andy Wattam, a UK National Bee Inspector. http://www.bbka.org.uk/local/lincolnshire/articles/-emergency-bee-care.shtml “Could I ask you please to put out a reminder to all of the District Secretaries about … Continue reading →

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A few links

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Emily Scott

Some articles/blog posts you might enjoy… I wouldn’t normally link to the Daily Mail, but local Ealing beekeepers John Chapple and Andy Pedley feature in a DM article celebrating their work as beekeepers to the Queen. I think John’s mischievous … Continue reading →

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Bringing home the hunny

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Emily Scott

Picking up where my previous post left off. On Saturday we took our six frames of honey to Emma’s dad’s house, as he had kindly let us do the messy business of honey extraction in his nice clean house. As … Continue reading →

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Hunny time

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Emily Scott

Yesterday was all about the honey. After three years of trying, I finally have some! On Friday Emma put a Porter bee escape on our super, which allows the bees to go down but not up so we can come … Continue reading →

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What’s flowering now: early August

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Emily Scott

After a couple of weeks of heavy rain sunshine is back in Britain again. The flowers are changing outside, the days are shortening and honey bee queens are gradually laying less eggs as the hive emphasis changes from increasing numbers … Continue reading →

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August varroa treatment

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Emily Scott

Have had a useful reminder e-mail from Andy Pedley at the Ealing Beekeepers Association, as me and Emma inspected early on Saturday and missed the usual 2pm meeting up… “The date for starting the Apiguard treatment this year is Saturday … Continue reading →

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Finally some sunshine

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Emily Scott

The past week’s weather has been causing me anxiety. Just as our new queen to replace the missing Rose was supposed to be out mating, vast quantities of rain and cloud fell on South-East England. Not just any rain, but … Continue reading →

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What are they up to now?

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Emily Scott

To my despair yesterday was a classic British summers day: dramatic grey clouds and rain coming down harder than a power shower. The week before we’d left five queen cells in Rose’s little hive. Me and Emma wanted to see … Continue reading →

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A quintet of queen cells

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Emily Scott

Everything was going so well. Both of our hives seemed fine. Until today. All was fine and dandy in Rosemary’s hive. It took a while to get in there – they had propolised down the entire queen excluder and it … Continue reading →

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