October 2024

As normal, the month started off mild but ‘very wet’ confining colonies to their hives when the Ivy was in full flower. On those mild days when temperatures rose and it stopped raining, every ‘worker bee’ that could be spared was out working the Ivy flowers and any other plant they could find still in bloom. Then we had our first ground frost of the season which set everybody back, reducing nectar flow and prevented […]