Dear Members,
Normally, once we have ensured our bees are healthy and have plenty of stores for the winter months, we can rest on our laurels and hopefully sell our honey.
This year, with protracted warm weather well into November, it is important to check hives regularly by weighing or hefting over the next few weeks and months to make sure bees have sufficient food to take them through to March/April, when Spring flowers again begin to provide forage.
Dear Members,
When I received the email from Jane Nimmo advertising Steve Martin’s talk on varroa, my first thought was “Oh no, not more about varroa, I know everything I need to know about this horrid little pest”.
Dear Members,
I am sure those of you who attended Steve Brown’s talk on processing and using wax last month received valuable advice on how to deal with this useful commodity.
Dear Members,
Hopefully, most of you will have managed to at least start your varroa treatments, but there is still time to do so early in September if you are a bit behind. You can do this while temperatures remain relatively high.
Dear Members,
This month is a busy one for beekeepers with harvesting honey, feeding and treating bees for varroa. Essentially, August also heralds the end of the active beekeeping season.
