Third week of February and we see the bees venturing outside and even feeding. The warm sunshine has woken the bees up from their winter slumber and they are busy taking ‘cleansing flights’ (that’s polite bee talk for ‘going for a poo’)....
Bees don’t hibernate, they huddle together in a cluster and use movement to generate heat and keep warm in their hives. If I open my hives they could get chilled so a simple check on them over the winter is to ‘heft’ the hive. This is lifting up one...
