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A day spent talking about bees

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Emily Scott

I started July off by helping out at the annual Northfields allotment open day. Tom usually goes along with his observation hive and honey for sale but he couldn’t make it this year. He had warned me it would be … Continue reading →

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Bee equipment review: National multi function crown board

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Emily Scott

I’ve been lucky enough to be sent a special crown board to review by a small beekeeping business in Kent called Bee Equipment Ltd: www.bee-equipment.co.uk. As well as selling beekeeping equipment online they also keep around 300 hives in the Kent area and … Continue reading →

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‘Neonics: everything you need to know’ infographic

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Emily Scott

I’ve been in contact with an outdoor shelters company called Sun Leisure, who designed the infographic below and asked if I would share it. The graphic originally featured some US stats on honey bees – I gave feedback suggesting that … Continue reading →

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Our bees surprise us again

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Emily Scott

It had been roughly a month since queen cells hatched in our three hives. Emma had seen big new queens in all our hives – so far, so good. Two of the queens were happily laying away – great. Yet … Continue reading →

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The life swap adventure

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Emily Scott

I keep coming across bees in unexpected places. Amongst the sadness of recent events here in the UK, a happy reference to bees came up in the BBC’s new show ‘The Life Swap Adventure‘ – available for UK viewers to … Continue reading →

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Book review – Bad Beekeeping by Ron Miksha (2004)

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Emily Scott

Ron is the author of the excellent Bad Beekeeping blog, which has recently been selected by Beesker as “the world’s very best website on bees and beekeeping”. Bad Beekeeping by Ron Miksha – available on Amazon Bad Beekeeping is no … Continue reading →

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Pollen, nosema and the case of three missing queens

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Emily Scott

This Saturday Tom ran a nosema IDing demo at the apiary. He had a microscope attached to his laptop so that he could show us what he was seeing on the screen and even take photos. After finding zero nosema in … Continue reading →

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Plant flowers, save the bees!

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Emily Scott

I’m as busy as a summer bee lately, but squeezed in some time to write a guest blog post for London based organic kids clothing company Little Green Radicals. They wanted to know about my experience with bees and how … Continue reading →

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A shook-swarm demo

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Emily Scott

On the Saturday before Easter a small but enthusiastic group of us gathered under the shade of the apiary’s trees to watch John Chapple carry out a shook-swarm demo on one of the hives. Unusually for John, he was actually … Continue reading →

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What the bees have been up to – and an unexpected award

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Emily Scott

At last my years spent blogging have paid off. After the previous lovely gift of a mug from Waltons for being named one of their ‘10 Brilliant Beekeepers‘ (well, a brilliant beekeepers’ blog anyway, not just generally brilliant!), another surprise email … Continue reading →

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