Tag Archives: Bees
Awe and wonder by the flowerful – not enough in our classrooms.
Ready for some awe and wonder? Look here http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/pollination.html short videos of such beauty – if you are a teacher, try them as your students settle at the beginning of a lesson. There is even one captioned in French for … Continue reading
Posted in Background, Bee curious, Bee life, Bee Photography, Forage, Forage plants, Garden area, General beekeeping, Honey, Hughenden Manor Project, Natural world, night foraging, Uncategorized
Tagged awe, bats, Bees, birds, butterflies, chroma key, communicate, create, curriculum, Education, flowers, pollen, pollination, prescriptive, stop motion, video, Wonder
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It has been a while …Floriade, be a bee, geocaching all comes together
My visit to Floriade and subsequent excitement following the tagged bees has been documented before. My ‘friends’ Wilke and Marjon, and Naomi and Jenny and their trips to collect pollen or nectar occupied hours of my time. I am not … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis of live bee data from tagged bees, Bee curious, Bee life, Educational opportunities, Forage, Fun events, Garden area, General beekeeping, Hughenden Manor Project
Tagged adventure, Bees, container, family, garden, geocache, GPS, hive, log, magic, map, map coordinates, muggle, nectar, pollen, swarm, treasure
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Labelling the mini jars of honey and feral highrise colony
Tuesday is our regular inspection day at Hughenden Manor. As winter approaches, opening the hive is rare unless it is really warm but we do need to feed them so they can successfully overwinter. Our team came with an assortment … Continue reading
The rooftops of London … high class hives!
I can’t believe I have only just found this as it dates from 2009. Worth a look
Posted in Bee life, Beekeepers, Forage, Garden area, General beekeeping, Honey
Tagged Bees, fortnum and mason's, frame, local variation, London, oak hives, queen, roofs
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Failure shows glimmer of success
I wrote a couple of posts ago about an experiment that I thought youngsters might like – it started out as whether bees prefer certain colours. Of course we beekeepers know they do, but allowing children to discover the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Bee curious, Bee life, Bee vision, Educational opportunities, Forage plants, General beekeeping, Natural world
Tagged attract, Bees, colors, colours, lemon oil, pheromones, plants, single, stamens, sugar syrup, sught, veins, view
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This could have gone so wrong
Over the last month I had heard so many long term beekeepers explain swollen faces and worse by saying they had not intended to open the hive and then been tempted to do so. I vowed to learn from their … Continue reading
Posted in Background, Bee life, Clothes and accessories, Garden area, General beekeeping, Stings
Tagged activity, Bees, beesuit, care, crownboard, foraging, hive, roof
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Prepare to feel the magic
Pictures worth 1000 words
Posted in Bee life, General beekeeping, Natural world, Uncategorized
Tagged amazement, awe, bat, Bees, humming bird, nature, nectar, pollen, Wonder
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My first swarm collection
Well, they are not actually my swarm and I cannot claim much credit for the collection part either. Len and Keith deserve all the credit for that – Keith’s foresight and Len’s confidence and agility deserving most credit. The family … Continue reading
Posted in Apiary improvement, Bee life, General beekeeping, Hughenden Manor Project, Uncategorized
Tagged Bees, colony, comb, hive, swarm
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Hive of activity
When I was 8 yrs old and my Great Grandmother died I can remember Mum pounding some pastry or similar in her grief and saying in a distressed voice ‘WHO will tell the bees?’. Continue reading
