"Bees in the news. I've been getting lots of e-mails about nicotinoid pesticides and the EU vote. The Harrow beekeepers are in two minds as the evidence in the lab suggests the pesticides are bad for bees and the evidence in the field is…"
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"Thanks very much David. I didn't scoop best in show, it was for video in The Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition, but I'm not complaining! Thanks for your support, hope the family's well.
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David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"2013 April 9th On Saturday or Sunday, when the cold finally broke and the sun came out for a while, Stephane went down to the hives and took a look at who was coming in and out. It’s still too cold to open them up but there was lots of…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"March 5th
The sun is out and so are the bees. Today I got a text from a friend that said ‘Your bees are out today, visiting my crocuses.’ This is good news, so I went straight down to the hives to see which colonies had emerged. The sun…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"September 16th Finally we have a harvest. A tiny one admittedly. Only 1kg of honey from South Hive, but it is enough to give a small pot to each of the bee keepers. None of the other colonies had stored any honey in the supers, and although…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"September 2nd My wife and son spoke to a man selling honey in the market today and he said that it had been his worst year of bee keeping ever. He has 250 hives. He’s had more swarms than he’s ever had in the past and the poorest honey…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"July 22nd
The good weather has come not a moment too soon. This has been a miserable early summer for all bees. Up and down the country people are worrying about their colonies, bewailing the lack of honey and concerned about the lack of forage. At…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"June 14th
The apiary is now shrouded in green. The bright young leaves of the Lime trees shield us from view and if you walk through the cemetery you would barely know we are there. The tiny green spheres that will become the Lime flowers are…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"May 20th
A week ago we inspected and found no sign of eggs any where, which means the Queens have still not made their mating flights. The Queen cell in North was still waiting to hatch on Wednesday 16th (our first bit of warm weather) but…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"May 11th
Lots of activity at the apiary, some of it still very confusing, but I have given up trying to construct a version that makes sense of all of it. Two weeks ago we had a queenless South, but re-queened it with an East Queen cell that…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"May 4th
We’ve watched the balled up swarm all week. Still up in the tree. Now I have to conclude that they have stayed up there and died. That’s just weird. Normally the scout bees find somewhere that they’re happy with as a…"
David Young replied to David Young's discussion Bees in the Cemetery in the group Bee Keeping Group
"May 1st
This is when things got complicated.
What is a swarm? A swarm is when a population of bees in a hive decides to split. The flying population leaves with the Queen to find a new home. The nurse bees, who don’t fly out of…"
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Sweet Chestnut Foraging
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 13:57 3 Comments 0 Likes
If you travel through Hyde Park there is a beautiful avenue of Sweet Chestnut trees (about a hundred) just north of the Rotten Row cycle path and just south of the Serpentine. They are ripe and ready. Take leather gloves for plucking them off the tree and roll the husks under foot to get the nuts out. I got a carrier bag full on Tuesday. The only other pickers were some Italian building workers in their lunch hour and the Serpentine geese are foraging too. Follow the geese for the trees where… Continue
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 16:01 on April 10, 2013,
Jonathan Goldberg said… Thanks very much David. I didn't scoop best in show, it was for video in The Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition, but I'm not complaining! Thanks for your support, hope the family's well.
- At 13:56 on July 12, 2011,
Matt Tudge said… Hi David,
many thanks for the message; I have now contacted Harrow Beekeepers Association and will hopefully be joined soon. I entirely agree with your comments about the community project aspects; we are intending to approach with a similar model of 2 main participants - myself to be hopefully included, a few nucleus members and then to possibly introduce (further down the line, with more experience) some sort of open day type introductions.
Do you accept guests to your hives? I'm investigating a couple of sites at the moment, so it's always handy to see what others have done.
Thanks,
Matt
- At 16:02 on July 18, 2010,
andrew blackwood said… - Hi David,
Thanks for the prompt reply. I look forward to knowing more about the bees in west london
- At 14:57 on April 21, 2010,
Aylie Cooke said… - Hi David - sorry so long to get back to you. No one else has expressed an interest in meeting up yet so shall we go ahead and arrange a discussion? If Jane would like to join us that would be great also. I am really keen to get moving on this but find myself in a particularly busy period with work and other commitments so tricky to find free slots. I could make the evening of Wednesday 28th though if that could work for you? If not just let me know when is most convenient and hopefully we can coincide within the next couple of weeks...All the best, Aylie
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