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National Honey Monitoring Scheme (NHMS)

Chilcotts Farm — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:57:19 +0000

I have needed to send this off for a while. The honey I took from the hives back in July ( the spring honey) is going to be sent off to have a DNA analysis undertaken. The objective of the analysis is too assess long term impacts on UK floral resources in the changing environment. […]

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Wasp Wars!

Chilcotts Farm — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:44:58 +0000

This year there seems to be a lot of wasps about in Devon. I have had to narrow the hive entrances down quite considerably to help the bees protect their colonies and honey stores.

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Bees are out collecting the summer honey

Chilcotts Farm — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:40:53 +0000

The weather has not been bad or good, but the bees are out at every opportunity. The summer flowers are blossoming, and we are hoping for a good honey harvest come August!

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Preparing for Season

Chilcotts Farm — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:41:28 +0000

Spring is gathering momentum, and the spring blossom is beginning to erupt with flower buds bulging and about to explode. The bees are out and about on warm days looking for blossom and sources of water. I am frantically trying to get prepared. This new hive is ready to hopefully house another colony of bees […]

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Bees are Springing into Action

Chilcotts Farm — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 09:16:06 +0000

We have had so much rain in the UK, but North Devon, although wet, seems to have got off lighter than some parts of the country! In the dryer, warmer spells, the bees have managed to get out and collect pollen. They are returning to the hive with their pollen baskets loaded up with mainly […]

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Busy Bee

Chilcotts Farm — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 09:58:39 +0000

We are having some warm weather at the moment. The sunny warm days are great for the bees allowing them to get out and about to build up their winter stores. Caught this lady foraging on a flowering ‘Iceberg’ (Sedumspectabile ) plant.

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Honey Bee On a Sunflower Covered in Pollen

Chilcotts Farm — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:15:44 +0000

This little lady was buy yesterday on a late sunflower. Even though it is mid September, some of the sunflowers are still in full bloom, and the bees are all over them. They must be a good source of pollen at this time of year!

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Bees are all over our New Zealand Flax Flowers

Chilcotts Farm — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 08:50:57 +0000

This year, in our garden (North Devon, UK), the New Zealand Flax’s have sent up some beautiful long flower spikes with small tubular flowers delicately displaying in reds and oranges. The anthers protrude from the top of the tubular flower. Here the high protein orange coloured pollen can be collected by the bee. But where […]

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Even Honey Bees need a drink.

Chilcotts Farm — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:30:11 +0000

This little lady, is on a pebble at the waters edge taking a drink. You can see her little proboscis sticking out and taking up the water. Bees not only need water to live, but also use it to rehydrate their honey.

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