Happy New Year!

It has been a few months since my last post, family and friends have been enjoying my first honey produced and I have now used up and melted down comb to produce candles.

   WARNING! When melting in the oven DO NOT LEAVE UNATTENDED
 Beeswax is highly flammable.

Recent activities

 Cut comb

 Honey flow from spinner

 Comb in extractor

Feeding

Having taken some honey off each hive in late September I began feeding syrup.  While the weather was still warm the bees have been able to rapidly store this to keep them going through the Winter months.

Bees busy on ivy, October 30th.

Preparing sugar syrup for Winter.

Checking honeybee larvae

Checking the honey crop