And so another beekeeping season begins, already a complete contrast to last year, which was an extremely cold and very long Winter. The oil seed rape, which is my main crop only started flowering in June, when it should flower from early May onwards. This year the oil seed rape has just started flowering, a good month early. I will take some photos of the fields that surround my apiaries over the next few days and post them on here.
A good early order book this year and the first batch of nuc boxes are ready for their colonies. All my colonies are going very well already, and some have capped drone cells, so I would guess that there will be drones about in a week to ten days. As long as the weather holds we will be able to start Queen production very early this year
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