Our Purple beehive, which swarmed on Wednesday (today is Friday), threw another swarm this afternoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjYKDKlx-zc&feature=youtu.be It remains to be seen if we can recapture them. So far we haven’t been able to see exactly where they’ve settled. Fingers crossed.
Month: April 2014
Swarmy weather
For the past week we’ve had rain, sometimes brief downpours and at other times more gentle rain, and the rainy days would be interspersed with sunshine. We were warned by one of our beekeeping mentors that this was “swarmy” weather: The bees are locked up inside the hive when it rains, and swarm on the…
True signs of spring
The astronomical onset of spring is the vernal equinox, which this year occurred on Thursday 20 March 2014. The date is determined by the movements of the Earth and the sun, and occurs regardless of weather conditions anywhere on the planet. Some people look to plants for an indication of spring: the first day that…