Beekeeper with deep interest in the natural world. 3, much loved, dogs. Oh, and some gardening.
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Last Notes npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature and a vague promise of rain too, but time will tell npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Positively chilly out there this morning, very nice #Wales npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I sewed one inside one of those flat squeaky toy so they would always have a bottle to crackle. It a bit flat now but still makes a good noise npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I knew Tasmania got chilly but not that it was so wide spread. When I visited they shut the swimming pool in Port Headland because the temp was almost down to 70⁰F npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature no idea it got that cold -6! npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature why is there a tree covered in bras? npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature take care because I rather fear I've read that book 😂 #AustralianNoir npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature stuart is laid up with his knee too.The only thing to do is rest it npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I don't know where you are but predator poo may work for the rabbits. Here they reckon lion poo keeps deer away and they would never have encountered them. npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I don't understand why people are so set on humanoid robots for farming or housework. We are really not the optimum design. How often have you wished you had 4 arms or more eyes? Also we fall over quite easily and we're often too tall or too short. It seems a far better design for a range of jobs is needed, 4 or 6 shorter legs, an extendable body, 4 or 6 extendable arms and all round vision would be a start npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature oh I am sorry, I thought you'd escaped it. npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature glad he's fully recovered. Looks beautiful npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature BuzzBallz are 'greenwashing' say recycling experts - BBC News npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I have seen white. Has to be purple for me as they taste like dishcloths but at least they are beautiful 😂 npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I did not know they came in green npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature ooh my! npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature its a disaster over here because its not considered unless you have an obvious bulls eye rash, which you may miss, so people get really ill while looking for a diagnosis and then it months of antibiotics to even improve a bit it seems npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature over here, where it is either less common or less acknowledge, it seems to take years to get a diagnosis npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature thank goodness, how do they know? npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature looks like a main street from a cowboy film, dry and dusty npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature very, very distopian! npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature The mountains were there but far away and misty today #Wales #DogsOfMastodon npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Guest dog on todays walk. She was seriously concerned about Welli when she leapt in a trough #DogsOfMastodon npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature our living room has 3 coming in for food of the last nest. We think they had 4 nest this year but hard to be sure npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature baby robin, start out speckley but turn red quite quickly then parents will drive them away npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature that is dreadful Richard npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Some views from tonights walk #Wales npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Stuart's knee is bad so I was in charge of Welli's walk tonight. It was a 3 trough walk. Here she is in a very scenic one that she doesn't see that often #DogsOfMastodon npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature oh yes, that is true. Its amazing how we mishear these things npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature ado? npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature 40 mile round trip to deliver honey before day gets too hot. No air con in my aged car npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature that must be right then, not that you'd want to with a small trailer and all the pot holes nowadays npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature except speed. I think you can't go above 50 with a trailer npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I've just been told we're doing bees, but it is a fairly shady apiary and only 6 hives. npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature jarring honey I think. Bit hot for doing bees. How do archaeologists cope with heat? They always seem very tough npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature do you use lemon juice to curdle it? npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature oops npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature that grit bin's not doing much of a job 😁 npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Go away for 4 nights and the polytunnel has gone berserk, the first tomatoes are ripe, the first miniature cuc is ready, the ginger root I popped in is shooting up and we now have 2 robins fighting for dominance of the living room food source #home #GrowYourOwn npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature View from the very accessible bit of coast path which links one bit of Ilfracombe with the other. #Devon #sea npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature i was going to ask what killed the toms? Watering? Must be very hard when they are not at home. @npub1d7r…2eyv npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature The bees working very hard to maintain hive temperature in this heat. They will also be fanning in the hive and spreading water around too. The hive has to be kept around 36⁰C for brood rearing. The adult bees will die in the mid 40⁰C. And then of course their colony is made of wax and if it gets too hot it will all melt. Hive temperature maintenance, summer and winter, is crucial to colony survival #beekeeping npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Bee suits came. Supposed to be made to measure but they seem to have measured someone else npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Anyone think this might be ageratum? Or something else? I suppose lemon balm is more likely as I have never grown ageratum in my life but the pot and compost came from my neighbours I think #gardening npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Our neighbour made this new flower bed from scratch last autumn. It was grass before. The garden wall is behind it. He put the rocks along the front then banked the earth up the wall. Then he planted it up almost all with things he'd grown and, 6 months later, it looks like its been there years. It will be a riot of colour soon, its all perennials. (To give you hope Roy is in his 80s) #gardening npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature no. Actually he did say he was pulling back from mastodon for a while as he felt he needed to do some proactive stuff around some issues. It was a bit cryptic. Hopefully he will be back npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature oh no! npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature if you run out of time you can get battery timers cheaply but not certain they work on waterbarrels, but why not @npub1rgf…7ecj npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature This is the swarm we took off a tree the other day. They have made a wonderful job of drawing the wax but we could not see eggs or larvae. That may be because its too soon however this noise is not right and sounded to us like a queenless roar, the saddest sound from a hive, the bees mourning in unison for their loss. We may be wrong but, just in case, we gave them a frame of eggs from next door. If they need a queen they can now make one from an egg or new larvae #beekeeping npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature This hive was struggling a few weeks back. Just 2 teacup sized patches of brood and not very many bees. So we moved them down into a polynuc which are much warmer than a wooden hive. They have come on well since and today we gave them a top. Ince they have pulled out the wax in there they can go back into a hive. Without this intervention they may have died. #beekeeping npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature or no mow May? They do that here then everything gets shaved, the caterpillars get mashed and the bees etc all starve. Totally pointless green washing npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature The apiary we did today is in this band of trees, so we were not melting. I have never seen so many oak seedlings coming through. Most of course will not make it but, because one or two trees on the steep bank behind the hives fell over 4 or 5 years ago there is a gap in the canopy and one or two will hopefully make it to their full majesty #beekeeping #nature npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature many, many congratulations on 41 years npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I just sit and watch them ranch their ants in joy and wonder. I didn't know about the wing clipping. npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Kevlar cuffs. I don't use them often as they get so hot in summer but they can save you a lot of stings if the bees are feisty as I anticipate today's being. They were feisty the other day and we were just standing looking at them #beekeeping npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature apparently its very popular in Iceland being one of the few things that reliably grows there npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I we feed the birds lard and oats mixed together where as I would prefer beef dripping and oats but it is just so expensive, I spent £20 on lard yesterday npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I think pigs have lard and cows have dripping. Dripping is twice the price of lard 🤔😁 npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I hope things go well for your daughter npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature I have personally seen nasty growth issues over here with secondary poisonining of plant via either compost or manure which has residue in it from where a persistant herbicide has been eaten by animals or was on green waste in peat free composts. We actually had to give up our garden veg patch after putting alpaca dung on it that was thus contaminated ☹️ I often wonder about the alpacas. Its not uncommon here to see sheep or cattle grazing fields that have been sprayed out npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature virus do you think? Not weed killer I don't think anyway 🤔 npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature bubble wrap is another option too npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Spring blossom today #wildflowers npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Tomato seeds in on the windowsill. Orangeto, which we grew last year and which were fabulous, and a new one for us called Honeymoon. Orangeto seeds are tiny. At first I thought there were none in the packet. #gardening npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Nope, I can confirm the potatoes are not up yet #DogsOfMastodon #gardening npub1elt2cfhrjxa868l7d242jy4s3wvqv52508l6zhde4z5uqng6jsys3tlfmk bees and nature Bees are busy on the celendine bringing in lots of yellow pollen. All 6 very busy in this apiary. Not going through them yet just hefting for stores and checking for busyness. This unseasonably warm spell has given them a boost. 4 apiaries checked and all 4 pleasingly active. #bees #honey #honeybees
