Today’s weather was finally good enough for us to visit the bees on Langney Marsh. We also wanted to see if our tarp experiment had vanished in the floods, so Paul and I headed down under blue skies and a brisk and chilly breeze to see what was going on in the apiary. We saw a heron, geese aplenty, and a few swans. Numerous gulls … Continue reading Marsh bees, and Bee Lining
Continuing with the feral bee theme, Paul had put up bait hives in Market Wood in the hope of enticing a swarm from one of the nearby oak tree colonies. Sure enough, there was lots of activity and bringing in of pollen when he checked after a week or so. We decided that these bees should be brought back to my apiary, so that I … Continue reading National Trust Swarm
Last year, Paul was tipped off about some bees in an aged oak at Knockhatch Adventure Park and yesterday we went to see them, and hear about their history from Colin, the Managing Director of the family-owned Park. The colony currently resides in the trunk of the tree, but originally they were in a branch which fell down, at which point the bees relocated. Of … Continue reading Tree Bees at Knockhatch
