Tales from a Top Bar 5 – Year’s end Blog News 12/11/202012/11/2020 This will be my last post for this year, as the bees seem to have settled themselves for winter, and there won’t be much going on for a while. As October started, the bees ceased taking the syrup, so I have now removed the remainder as I don’t want it going
Tales from a Top Bar – 4 Blog News 30/09/202030/09/2020 A mix of fortunes since I last posted. On the up side, the bees have continued to build and fill lots of comb – they now have eleven full combs bulging with honey, and a couple of incomplete ones at either end which also have some stores in them. The
Further Tales from a Top Bar – 3 Blog 30/07/202030/07/2020 So the new jam jar feeders had mixed results, due entirely to my poor workmanship. The holes weren’t quite big enough to allow easy removal of the jars, and my attempts to free them aggravated the bees and I got stung… so I went back to the bottles and
Tales from a Top Bar – 2 Blog 27/06/202027/06/2020 20 June was a Big Day – it was the nearly 6 weeks since the swarm took up residence and I took a first very tentative peek at what was going on between the follower boards (the main hive area). A few bees had been hanging about outside the hive
