Oh my. Finally, almost a year to the day when I first received my nuc and set up my flow hive – I’ve done an inspection and there are frames of capped honey. (pictures below). Luscious white capped cells of honey. For so long I’ve been waiting to do an inspection and find capped honey. I was almost beginning to worry the poor girls where incapable, and worried about what they were going to feed on over…
I love photographing my bees. I’m now on holiday for a week and it started with the most beautiful day on Saturday. I spent a long time just photographing my bees, experimenting with different lens and post processing everything in Adobe Lightroom. I use a Canon 7D camera and for each photograph I have listed the meta-data for the picture including lens. I know I love to know how bees have been photographed as I trawl through my…
Ants. I really don’t like them very much. Particularly when there is a stream of them making their way up the concrete blocks, the base board, onto the hive and up into the roof. I had noticed them for a little while when it occurred to me – and hopefully not too late – that perhaps they were causing more damage than I realised. As you go through life it’s just something you see – streams of ants in the…
Friday was terrifying. We had a storm roll in mid afternoon, and by the time it was on top of us the thunder was constant and the lightning was cracking. I was worried about my hive. I didn’t know how bees go in bad weather – do they hunker down? The weather was too ferocious for me to leave the house and check. I’m pretty sure the house was hit by lightning at one point as…
I don’t know the answer to this yet. But it does amaze me that bees can be so different. The honey-bees, which are working their collective magic in my hive, doing their job, relying on each other – will only survive as a colony. As soon as they stop working together the whole colony will unravel. It’s what’s known as a super-organism. When I watch the Patriots playing NFL, it does seem they borrow from the same playbook….