The Weather in Elgin, this morning, is +16C and blowing a hooley from the north-west with intermittent blustery showers too. Graham went to our apiary to walk the dogs with a view to my meeting him there at 10.30 to remove the nucleus bees (from yesterday) into a brood box. Arriving on time there was …
Category: Beekeeping
An Elgin Swarm
Having come through the winter successfully with our 4 colonies, guess what – we are now 8!! The hive, in the middle of Elgin, which had swarmed two weeks ago now has again. After our experience last year we have been super vigilant re signs of swarming but, quite clearly, not vigilant enough. Anyway, we …
MBA monthly meeting May 2011
Alasdair Joyce’s Apiary at Dallas Dhu 15th May After a morning of poor weather more than 40 people arrived at Alasdair and Mary’s delightful home and garden to find that the weather was kind and the rainy drizzle had stopped. The bees are situated about 100 yards away from his house through a woodland garden …
High Jinks in Lhanbryde
For the second time in almost as many weeks it has been necessary to drive – ‘lickety spit’ – to Donna and Ronnie Clark’s home in Lhanbryde. Why? Her bees are swarming!! Donna, who is the Treasurer of Moray Beekeepers Association has to go to work to keep her bees in the manner to which …
Queen Rearing – The Cook Method
We’ve been planning to embark on a queen rearing programme here at MBA for some time now and this weekend, at last, we’re going to start in earnest! The method we are going to use is good for small scale queen rearing but can be adapted for greater numbers. It’s called the Cook Method and …
My bee-loud glade
Today was such a beautiful day I just had to pop over to my apiary (minus beesuit as they’re a gentle bunch!) to take a few pics of what the girls were up to. Plenty of action in and out of the entrance and pollen of various shades from orange to pale cream. The first …
My first honey
By Allison Laws – Committee Member Hi, just took the honey frames out of my super today. I took a short sunshine break from the rain to nip out and rob my hive, bees weren’t too impressed I can tell you I managed to get 5 full frames of honey and a couple of partially …
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