bait hives – The Sustainable Smallholding http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:43:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.11 44677425 Two Queens, or Two Swarms? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/two-queens-or-two-swarms/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/two-queens-or-two-swarms/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:24:16 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1443 Another hectic day makes me think back to April and thinking that I was getting ahead. Foolish. Again it was bees that took up most of my time. I also saw two queens within what acted like a single swarm, rather than two swarms. This is how the day went. After my early chores, I […]

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Two Swarms, and a non-Swarm http://sustainablesmallholding.org/two-swarms-and-a-non-swarm/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/two-swarms-and-a-non-swarm/#respond Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:49:29 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1437 Although I have stacks that I want to post about, once again, today it’s bees, and swarms again, and I’ve spent the whole day, in a bee suit, in the sun, and I feel like I’ve got a hangover before I sink the first glass of red. Today was not all successful, and I wanted […]

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Scything and Swarm Eight http://sustainablesmallholding.org/scything-and-swarm-eight/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/scything-and-swarm-eight/#respond Thu, 19 May 2011 20:24:57 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1417 Today I had arranged to do some scything tuition, but had told Andy that I may have to pause to house a swarm. He picked up the peening pretty quickly, which was good, but by lateĀ  morning the sound of bees just kept getting louder. So I suited up, as did he, and we walked […]

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Do Swarms travel with a Spare Queen? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/do-swarms-travel-with-a-spare-queen/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/do-swarms-travel-with-a-spare-queen/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 21:39:39 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1383 Yesterday I housed my sixth swarm of the season, and far from becoming routine, the process threw up a number of questions, including, do swarms travel with a spare queen? In the end, I think I can answer that, but at the time it was an interesting question to mull over, whilst observing the swarm […]

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First Swarm of the Season http://sustainablesmallholding.org/first-swarm-of-the-season/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/first-swarm-of-the-season/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:39:36 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1364 Well, I’ve had my first swarm of the season, which is about a week early. As predicted, the moment that the weather started to improve, swarming commenced. I found it at about 2 pm, and by just after 4, it was making it’s way into it’s new home, but more about that later. As a […]

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