Tag: nucleus
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It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over Whilst the beekeeping season is over for most of the UK, Scotland and the Isle of Lewis have a later start and so a later finish, extended further by the late blooms of heather. The droughts and heatwaves that are making the headlines in England and Wales haven’t affected…
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Bees in Transit If you read the previous beekeeping blog you’ll know that June was especially difficult, and despite the welcomed warmer and drier weather, July had an equally deadly sting in its’ tail. I had ordered a nuc last year, for this season, and so booked a ferry for a day trip off-island to…