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Winter at last?

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Emily Scott

Last weekend brought a surprise – snowy rooftops. The white stuff melted fast, but the chilly air remained. Down at the apiary the ground was hard and all was quiet, with no bees flying. When the bees are tucked up, … Continue reading →

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New LASI oxalic acid research published

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Emily Scott

A comment by the lovely Amelia from afrenchgarden.wordpress.com on my last post led me to look at the University of Sussex’s Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) website. I was dismayed to see a new press release, ‘Scientists determine how to control … Continue reading →

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An unusually warm winter for the bees

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Emily Scott

Happy New Year everyone! December here in London was unusually warm, with a high of 16°C (60.8°F) recorded at Kew Gardens. This has caused the bees to go through their stores faster than usual and also encouraged them to go foraging … Continue reading →

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The things people want to know about bees

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Emily Scott

I’ve been looking back at the web searches people used to find my blog during 2015. The most popular was ‘honeyflow’, with ‘honey flow’ and ‘honeyflow.com/commercial’ also in the top 10 (the last demonstrating that some people prefer to enter urls into search engines … Continue reading →

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Tucking the bees in for winter

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Emily Scott

It has taken a while to come, but at last we have proper see-your-breath-in-the-air, see-the-sparkling-frost-in-the-mornings cold. The kind of cold that stops honey bees flying. I walked round the apiary yesterday and the hives could have been abandoned, so quiet were … Continue reading →

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A visit to the country… with bonus bees

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Emily Scott

Last weekend brought a perfect start to November. An appropriately misty October 31st was followed by a sunny Sunday, showing off the dew glistening on the enormous spider webs hanging from the scaffolding outside our house. To take advantage of … Continue reading →

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Stamp art competition – we have a winner!

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Emily Scott

The winner of the fd covers limited edition art print competition (see my previous post), chosen at random, was Barbara Maddock! Congratulations Barbara. To enter the competition, you needed to leave a comment telling me either your favourite thing about … Continue reading →

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Stamp cover competition – free limited edition print (for UK readers only)

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Emily Scott

*Competition now closed* I have a prize to give away! I have been contacted by fdcovers, a stamp collectibles company who have released some art work for the new Royal Mail Bees of Britain stamps issued in August 2015. The six … Continue reading →

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Book review – Do beekeeping/The secret to happy honeybees by Orren Fox (2015)

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Emily Scott

The Do Book Company publish books designed to help you learn something new and motivate you to do it. Other books in their series include ‘Do Sourdough’, ‘Do improvise’ and ‘Do grow’. They gave me this book to review – … Continue reading →

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The beauty of bees

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Emily Scott

This weekend I have been thinking about how lucky I am to have access to the inner world of honey bees. I must have seen inside hundreds of different hives by now, but I never get bored of watching the … Continue reading →

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