Real autumnal feel at the apiary last night when I went to feed the bees and put up some Asian hornet posters #beekeeping #BeekeepersHour

Took a nettle sting to the forehead at the apiary today. Got a right ol’ goose egg growing there! 😩 But I’m rather pleased that I get stung more by them than by my bees... #bees #beekeeping #beekeepershour

So much for getting to my apiary again today. I need to check on the colonies I’ve merged, and check on what was a massive, defensive, and queen cell-y colony last weekend 😟 #weather #beekeeping #beekeepershour

Somebody is tuckered out after an hour in the garden (supervised, with harness). I don’t have the heart to wake her, she looks so sweet, but she’s on my beesuit which really needs washing (and I don’t want her claws in the veil!) #beekeepershour #Cats #catstodon

The best day’s beekeeping. 2 new queens spotted & marked, none of them died in the proces 😬 Nettles cleared around the hives, & no honey to harvest. Result all round 💪🏻
Yes, their 👑 are purple... Partly because I didn’t have the correct colour pen, but I anyway thought it was a yellow year (I confuse pollen with yellow pen 😩), so it would’ve been even more wrong if I thought it I was doing it right 🤪😂 Thanks @garyhammond for setting me right!
#beekeepershour #bees #beekeeping

I collected my first ever solo #swarm today! ☺️ Wasn’t expected, but fortunately I had a nuc with me… and lucky it was only 6’ up in a tree, and not over the pond but next to it 😅A small cast swarm with a dinky little ginger princess piping away… 🐝
#bees #beekeeping #BeekeepersHour #WorldBeeDay

Been on a 12-day long work trip. Can you guess where…?! 😄

Mae Rhyngrwyd gyda ni! O’r diwedd! 😍
First things first - Am Dro catch-up on BBC iPlayer 😍 #DysguCymraeg