Since they are consuming it so fast I switched to honey at 1:1. This is two hours elapsed.

#beekeeping #apiary #April23 #bees #HoneyBees

Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – about the first Busy Bee book

In Endangered Meadow the bees of Old Oak Meadow have to unite the meadow’s inhabitants to stop some developers building houses all over it. The UK has lost 97% of its meadows since the middle of the 20th century and the madness of the planning system means that councils want to build more little boxes where the only way to get anywhere is through owning a car. An unsustainable model of growth whether those cars are fossil fuel powered or are electric powered. So one clever bee, Beatrice, Bea to her friends, the hardest working bee in the hive, comes up with an ingenious idea of how to save the meadow. Can the bees and the other creatures of Old Oak Meadow save their home?

We need bees for our own selfish survival and through my books I try to show to the younger generation how important they are. The book is available globally via Amazon and two of the links are given below. It’s available in two print versions, a 9″x5″ paperback and A4 format with the large illustrations repeated at the back and also as an ebook. This is one of Alice Wright’s wonderful illustrations.

The meadow

These are the .co.uk links, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/198320384X/, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B08BW5Y3CS/, and these are the .com links, https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Bee-Endangered-Meadow-Easy-ebook/dp/B086SBMG3Y/, https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B08BW5Y3CS/.

A pdf of the story is available from www.junagarhmedia.co.uk

There are T-shirts available of the cover artwork with or without the story title from our Teemill site for children, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.

Endangered Meadow artwork with book title T-shirt

Our links

See more of Alice Wrights’ wonderful art, https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/alice-wright/ or Instagram @alicewrightillustration or Facebook @alicewrightillustrates.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

#Bees #Bumblebees #BusyBeeAndTheEndangeredMeadow #BusyBeeAndTheSilentSpring #HoneyBees #PaulNoël

The new hive with the caught swarm has pollen going in and the bait hive might be back to scout bees and no robbing.

#beekeeping #bees #beehive #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #SwarmTrap #April21 #HoneyBees

The bait hive is busy this afternoon. Seems like a little fighting going on so must not be from the same hive. Could be some robbing but there's a lot of coming and going too. There was still some honey in some of the old comb put in here.

#beekeeping #bees #BaitHive #SwarmTrap #HoneyBees #April19

The captured bees seem to be doing bee things as it warms up. I peaked in the top deep around 9 am and there were no bees up in there so I took it off and there was no drama. It looked like they were clustered up into 3-4 frames but it's just waxed foundation so I guess there's lots of room in that space.

#beekeeping #bees #HoneyBees #swarm #beehive #apiary #April19

This same hive swarmed at the same degree days last year and it's not even the same bees unless the swarm I caught and put in the box was from there originally.

My bee log entry last night:

"Last year: April 23, 2025 107.4 + 184.9 = 292.3 Blossom degrees
Swarm day, West hive, might have been a fire drill,, but that meant queen flying."

"Apr 18, 2026 Feb 8.5 + Mar 145.9 = 154.4 + 150.5 = 304.9 Blossom degrees"

#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary

One of the hives swarmed today and it was low enough in a tree I could catch it while standing 7 feet up on a ladder with a fiberglass pole I modified. Once most of the bees were caught the weight couldn't be held vertical and then I heard a crack from the pole I let it go and landed on my roof. I got them in an empty hive before dark.

#beekeeping #Swarm #BeeSwarm #SwarmCatching #bees #HoneyBees #apiary

Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – Signed and dedicated editions direct from the author

Old Oak Meadow in danger, strange, what’s going on? The bees need to save it. Ideal for birthdays, Christmas and other occasions

For £12.99 including UK postage and packing I will sign and dedicate a book, reading age 8-12, for you. It includes a free 7″ x 5″ blank card (while stocks last) of the cover illustration of one of my other books and there are four to choose from. You can let me know what you want to write or I can write something on your behalf for whoever you are buying it for. Please contact me for further details including postage costs to other parts of the world. [email protected], 07938 293538. I am also advertising Busy Bee and the Silent Spring, the second book of the series, for the same price and a two book bundle for £19.99. This book is also available through our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

The story

In Endangered Meadow the bees of Old Oak Meadow have to unite the meadow’s inhabitants to stop some developers building houses all over it. The adventure starts one day when one clever bee, Beatrice, Bea to her friends, the hardest working bee in the hive, discovers a new sign at the entrance to the meadow. She comes up with an ingenious idea of how to save the home of all the creatures that live there. Will they be successful?

This is one of Alice Wright’s wonderful illustrations that can be seen throughout the book.

The meadow

The books can be purchased directly from Amazon without my signing and dedication of course. This is the .co.uk link to this book, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B08BW5Y3CS/, and this is the .com link, https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B08BW5Y3CS/.

There are organic cotton T-shirts available of the cover artwork with or without the story title from our Teemill site for children, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.

Endangered Meadow artwork with book title T-shirt

Our links

See more of Alice Wrights’ wonderful art, https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/alice-wright/ or Instagram @alicewrightillustration or Facebook @alicewrightillustrates.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

#Bees #BusyBee #BusyBeeAndTheEndangeredMeadow #HoneyBees #Meadow #PaulNoël