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Sunday 27th Oct, Steeple Aston
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Recent Blog Posts
- Top Bar Hives, warts and all January 4, 2020
- ONBG meeting, October 2019: Hive envy! November 9, 2019
- Convergent theories September 17, 2019
- Learning from the Bees, Berlin – bees au naturel! September 11, 2019
- ONBG+ meeting, August 2019: insulation, cavity size, Golden Hives August 19, 2019
- ONBG meeting, July 2019 – what makes a good hive? July 25, 2019
- At the village fete June 30, 2019
- Learning from the Bees Conference, Berlin June 24, 2019
- ONBG meeting, 15th June 2019 – TBHs, Freedom hives and a surprise swarm June 16, 2019
- Swarm stories June 2, 2019
- Grow, shake or drum? Transferring bees between hive types April 26, 2019
- ONBG meeting, 6th April 2019 – TBHs April 12, 2019
- ONBG meeting, 9th March 2019 – new season, new faces! March 30, 2019
- New adventures March 3, 2019
- Training new beeks March 1, 2019
- Moving hives less than 3 miles February 21, 2019
- ONBG Meeting, 1st Dec 2018 – insulation and instrumentation December 30, 2018
- Learnings from the Learning from the Bees conference November 27, 2018
- Meditations on the Learning from the Bees conference November 8, 2018
- Hive insulation using cork October 27, 2018
Tag Archives: Microclimate
Four legged beekeeper
As a further note on biosecurity I came across this article about a bee keeper in Brazil. He has a friend who helps him collect the honey. A donkey. Complete with a bee keeping suit. http://www.treehugger.com/culture/honey-farmer-creates-beekeeping-suit-his-donkey.html Now that is one … Continue reading
Posted in Honey, Newspaper articles, Products, Uncategorized
Tagged donkeys, four legged bee keeper, Innovation, Microclimate, Stings
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Bees and Biosecurity: Simple measures to control infections and keeping the bees happy.
Trees and Bees, the obvious top bar link. I have been promising to write something up for the blog for a few weeks now. What with the recent furore over Ash Die Back and other tree diseases its been one … Continue reading
Posted in Apiary visits, Books, Ecology, Hives, Honey, Inspections, Meetings, ONBG, Products, Research, Swarms, TBH, Wax
Tagged Ancient Tree Forum, Ancient Tree Hunt, At the Hive Entrance, Bees, bio-secure, bio-security, biodiversity, chalk brood, climatic changes, cross contaminantion, diseases, Drones, Environment, fungal spores, Garden plants, H. Storch, Hives, Inspections, life cycles, Microclimate, nature, OBKA, Parasites, pathogens, pollen, robber bees, smocks, spores, suits, Swarms, TBH, Varroa Mites, vectors, weather
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Microclimate report
North Oxfordshire: Today our ivy has begun flowering and is suddenly humming with insects. Flies, hoverflies, things that might be bees but don’t look quite right(?). Wasn’t like this a couple of days ago on our last sunny day – … Continue reading
Wasp season begins
Our wasp traps are beginning to catch wasps in North Oxfordshire. Time to hang out wasp traps to protect your hives if you have not already done so. This could be a useful indicator of Oxfordshire microclimates. I know our … Continue reading
