Bee Fact

OK a bit slow adding this blog after bee course, did you know that the average bee makes 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in it's life! A seriously hard worker given that a bee visits 6000 flowers a day and has a flying life of 4-5 weeks.

Bee Tech!!

Slowly I think I am beginning to get to grips with this blogging thing, now I have a search engine and adverts, whatever next?

Busy Bees!

Day 3 of course and picked up a few interesting facts, such as did you know that in one day a bee visits 6000 flowers, with say 30,000 flying worker bees that's 180,000 flowers visited a day!

It also seems possible that honey can be harvested early provided you leave them plenty to tide them over in June which apparently is a lean period for bees, but have a cunning plan for June as have bought some early cropping runner beans and seeds of a plant called "Blue Borage" which bees are supposed to love, time will tell :), and the flowers are supposed to taste nice as well!

Learnt a bit about swarming and I think I am actually going to look forward to this, sounds like fun :).

OK competition time, thought I would introduce you to one of the ladies in my life, need a name for her, please feel free to comment.

Beecam

OK, perhaps I am thinking about these bees too much, I'm told that last night I was talking in my sleep, just one word,"Bees"! I also have a vague recollection of dreaming about watching the bees flying in and out of the hive! Hmm, will have to get that under control.

So looked on google for wireless beecam and came up with this on Ebay. A bit nearer the time that the bees arrive I might just be tempted to set up my beecam. Mind you it does look a bit of a monster, I'll have to get some Elephant grass to hide it in.

Day 2 beekeeping course

Not sure what to say really! Other than back too school, actually a lot easier on the ear than school and it's dark outside so can't drift off into space and look out of the window, (yes David you will know what I am on about:) ).
OK cousin, time for a curry and a techy talk about how to set up that bee cam, I like the idea of logging on anywhere and being able to watch the activity.
Right, bee news, discovered today that the type of bee I have put my name down for is really up for swarming! So with my bee cam I will bee able to watch them all bugger off to hang on some branch somewhere, all while I am miles away!
I wonder if boss will give me "beeternity leave"? Well I missed out on all that paternity leave stuff, so fair's fair?