Wednesday 9 December 2009

Good luck to the bees!!
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In May, with the help of our village school teacher, Paul,
we set up two bee hives in the garden!
Joshua my ten year old singlehandedly built the actual hives,
I helped to paint them and Paul delivered the bees!
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Over the summer we regularly checked the hives to
locate the queen, to check for swarm cells
and to feed them as necessary.

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Both colonies grew well and produced honey,
but we decided not to extracted any this year,
hopefully improving their chances of surviving the winter.
Fingers crossed!!
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Mmm, HONEY!! We did have a little taste!

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Her she is, the queen - dotted green
Good luck to her!

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