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Tag: feral bees

Selmeston Bee Check

Posted on August 4, 2020 by jen3972

I went to check the wild-living bees as I've not been to see them since the beginning of May - not that they will have been remotely bothered! These hives were effectively abandoned a few years ago, and the home-made hives are disintegrating, making it difficult to establish what's going on as I daren't prise … Continue reading Selmeston Bee Check →

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Primary School Bees

Posted on July 9, 2020 by jen3972

I was invited to come and talk to the Year 6 children at Western Road Primary School in Lewes, East Sussex, about honey bees, as they have a feral colony living in the roof of their school building. They have been there at least a few years, and are not normally particularly noticeable, but since … Continue reading Primary School Bees →

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Post mortem number three…

Posted on February 25, 2020February 25, 2020 by jen3972

I have had a colony at my apiary which was occupying a brood box full of comb we'd taken out of a feral nest in a wall at Crutches Farm in Winchelsea (see post here). The comb had been piled in and robbed out, but we'd discovered bees bringing in pollen, so moved them over … Continue reading Post mortem number three… →

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Another post mortem…

Posted on February 12, 2020 by jen3972

Back in May, I visited the bees at Knockhatch Adventure Park, and there had been a small cast swarm in the bait box. We'd put this in a National, and kept an eye on them. I had last checked them from the outside at the end of August, and they had been bringing in pollen … Continue reading Another post mortem… →

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Marsh bees, and Bee Lining

Posted on February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 by jen3972

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 … Continue reading Marsh bees, and Bee Lining →

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Winchelsea Visit

Posted on October 16, 2019October 17, 2019 by jen3972

Now that the bee commitments are starting to quieten down for the winter, I went to visit Paul to discuss plans for next year with the Market Wood bees, and any other swarms we capture from the feral colonies in and around Winchelsea. I have one of the swarms here at my apiary as we … Continue reading Winchelsea Visit →

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Hive autopsy, and spiders

Posted on September 14, 2019September 15, 2019 by jen3972

I wrote a post back in January about a hive I had which contained the bees we rescued from a wall in a squash court in 2016. As it was free comb cut from the cavity in the brood box, I couldn't have access apart from 6 frames in the super above, from which I … Continue reading Hive autopsy, and spiders →

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National Trust Bees – and a whole lot of moths

Posted on August 28, 2019 by jen3972

Paul and I wanted to check on the Winchelsea church bees, and also the swarm from the church bees who were too angry to live domestically so to speak, so Paul took them from Mary's garden down to Crutches Farm, where the bees in the cottage wall had been; those bees are now at mine, … Continue reading National Trust Bees – and a whole lot of moths →

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National Trust Bees on the Move

Posted on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 by jen3972

I started working with the National Trust bees at Winchelsea when my friend and colleague Paul asked me to help remove some bees from a wall in a National trust cottage at Crutches Farm. We couldn't get them out so decided to leave them until they had built up again and were a bit more … Continue reading National Trust Bees on the Move →

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The Street Lamp Bees

Posted on June 1, 2019 by jen3972

Following on from my previous post... Yesterday I was contacted by a site worker from East Sussex Highways about removing the panel from the street lamp so that I could access the bees inside. We met underneath the lamp (although that's where the similarity with Narnia ends), and after a few deft stabs with a … Continue reading The Street Lamp Bees →

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