Its now late March and has been a bright sunny week, but we have a howling North Easterly and its freezing cold. The bees are out and about for a couple of hours around midday as the plums and damsons are in full flower.
Due to the corvid 19 lockdown it will not be possible for me to help out at any of my trainees apiaries for the whole of the summer the way things are going, but I will still be doing the rounds of my own, they are mostly remote and its highly unlikely that I will meet anyone. Beekeeping is my occupation and hardly something you can do while sitting at a computer and bees are not creatures you can just leave to get on with it. Feeding all the colonies at the moment as I have always felt that this is the most dangerous time of the year, low numbers in the hives, low food stores and cold weather are a bad combination.
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