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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 one post 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 2

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

Most recent posts

Undertakers, hygienic bees and the scent of death
Everything seems to speed up once the autumn equinox passes; the frequency of low pressure systems rolling through, the wind speed, the flush of colour to the trees and the disappearance of summer migrants.The 'local' …
On , by David (The Apiarist), 3,563 words
Pollen and brood rearing
Simplistically you can think of pollen and nectar as the building material to 'make' new bees, and the fuel that enables them to function.Of course, it's a little more complicated than that.Nectar is the principal …
On , by David (The Apiarist), 367 words
Pollen and winter bees
Across the country, beekeepers are experiencing the first unpleasant withdrawal symptoms of going 'cold turkey' ... the start of the not beekeeping season. After the hustle and bustle of the late summer honey harvest, followed …
On , by David (The Apiarist), 3,502 words