I managed to harvest a little runny honey from one of the hives, as you can see from the photo. It’s less sweet and more floral in flavour compared to the spring honey. Now I’m not harvesting any more honey I shall put a varroa mite treatment in each hive....
Congratulations to Alistair, his soft set honey win first in the 9 jars of home produced honey, labelled for sale at the Scottish Open National Show, held at Dundee Flower and Food festival at Camperdown Park early in September. This was the honey he harvested after...
The bees are swarming, going off with a new queen to make a new colony, so I need to capture the swarm and find it new hive, otherwise they will be lost. Below you can see the swarm which was wrapped in the old sheet, transported in the cardboard box and then...
The Oil Seed Rape has stopped flowering so Alistair, one of our large animal vets, has taken what honey his bees have collected. This is because this honey sets quickly, so if it is left in the hive then it is difficult to extract without destroying the honeycomb. The...
The yellow fields of Oil Seed Rape are in full flower during May and some of June (about 6 weeks in total), the bees are very active collecting nectar and making it into honey, so Alistair, one of our large animal vets, has added some ‘supers’ to the hive....
First opening of my hives this year. I took the opportunity to open my hives on a nice day at the weekend and check to see if the activity of the flying bees bringing pollen into the hive indicates that I have laying queens inside. I don’t want to have the hives...
