Wednesday 2 May 2012

Sugar and Spice....

Sooooo..some 24 hours after the bees were safely walked into the hive the impact of the coldest wettest April on record loomed above the garden like a thunderous looking raincloud.....


What would the new house guests be eating? and how to encourage them to stay in their new home?


I needed to encourage them to start building wax honey comb - an energy intense activity for bees, particularly when they are in an empty hive and only have the honey they brought with them in their honey stomachs to keep them going...


It was time to feed them!- bring on the sugar syrup
 

Warm water and sugar - mmmmm.... yummy sugary sweetness...... delivered straight to a pot in the loft of your new home .... 
 

Now what self respecting bee would ever leave a home with such good room service?
Now I need to leave them to it for a few days.....please please please can we have some bright sunny weather so they can fly and find some nectar?
....and so I can also have chance to buy a bee suit that actually fits!!







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