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The Apiarist - Blog

Weekly posts on the science and practice of beekeeping. Bees, honey, swarms, bad backs, stings and just about everything else as well.

  • By David Evans
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly two posts per week
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Dec 2023 9
Jan 2024 8
Feb 2024 8
Mar 2024 7
Apr 2024 4
May 2024 6
Jun 2024 5
Jul 2024 5
Aug 2024 5
Sep 2024 4
Oct 2024 4
Nov 2024 6
Dec 2024 6
Jan 2025 5

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

So, you want to be a beekeeper?
Congratulations.Good decision 😄.Beekeeping is a wonderful hobby.There's a lot to recommend it; it's relatively inexpensive to start, training is usually widely available, it involves an invigorating combination of hard work, practical skill, observation, insight and …
On , by David (The Apiarist), 369 words
Bots, blogs and bees
The information superhighway can lead you to some pretty dodgy information unless you're careful.In the 'good old days' a helpful blogger would craft an article on swarm control, or queen rearing or Varroa management, re-read …
On , by David (The Apiarist), 162 words
Magnetic personalities
If you strap a magnet to the head of a pigeon, it gets lost.Not just any pigeon of course, a homing pigeon, and not just any magnet ... it has to be small enough that …
On , by David (The Apiarist), 243 words