Welcome to the Blog!

Hi there reader! How are you going? As this is the first post I want to tell you a little bit about how I'll be using the blog and maybe a bit more about beekeeping. For this blog I don't want to spam you with posts and emails so I will probably post on here once every one or two months. The blog posts will mainly be about new happenings with our hive like new harvests or a little bit more information about beekeeping and the types of procedures that we are carrying out during the time of year.

After I publish each blog post I will send out an email to one of the people who have used the subscribe form and ask them if they have any questions about beekeeping or anything related to parkers pure honey then I will try my best to answer them in detail in the next blog post.

Right now we are nearing the end of august and heading into spring. Spring is a great time for bees on our block as the flowers bloom creating a carpet of colour which the bees can use as a great food source creating a massive boom inn hive growth, which is why when we do our first inspection in spring we add another box so that the hive doesn't overflow when they start going crazy on the flowers.

Bees naturally swarm in spring. Swarming is like their way of making a new colony, where half the workers will fly away with the queen and clump on a branch for a couple days while the queen sends out worker that will try to find a new place to set up a colony. While the bees are in this clump many people think that they are going to set up a colony so they have them removed only to realise that they have built no comb. When they are in this state they are also very passive which is great for beekeepers who are going swarm catching. Swarm catching is a procedure that many beekeepers do, including us, when they are wanting to set up a hive. When people see swarms they put it up on a Facebook page for beekeeping and beekeepers who want to set up a hive can go and collect the swarm by finding the queen and putting her in a cardboard box, then waiting until all the bees follow her and then sealing the box. Then they drive the box back to their hive and put it out the front of it. If the queen likes the hive she will move in with the rest of the workers and if she doesn't she will fly away and swarm again. This is the way lots of beekeepers, including us, get their hives.

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-Parkers Pure