Twenty people convened at Gilliane’s to share thoughts on bees, and rather a lot of food. A recurring theme was winter mortality and factors affecting this: weather, hive design and climate change.
Greeting and eating
Food is a marvellous social lubricant, and we’re all pretty local so conversation was irrepressible. In between talk about Oxford colleges, Covid, and changes in when plants are flowering, we managed to squeeze in a few bee things.
Chris has returned to beekeeping after a gap and has been struck by how climate change has really messed up the bees’ calendar – he’s seen them foraging on Christmas day and the seasons are less distinct; winter brood break no longer seems so well defined. The lack of predictability erodes their resilience.
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