Monthly Archives: May 2014

We had our first Council meeting since the AGM of the Dorset BKA a few days ago.  Our Chair, Lesley Gasson, pointed out that most of the officers belong to the Dorchester & Weymouth BKA and a few people are … Continue reading →

I drove across to Tatworth in Summerzet to the Bee Happy Plants nursery where my apprentice, Sarah, lives and grows. It was a lovely day and Sarah told me that she and her pack of hounds had been for an … Continue reading →

This afternoon I noticed that my new portable telephone announced in writing that somebody had tried to ring me almost an hour earlier, but I hadn’t heard it ring. I guess that was because I was at a friend’s house … Continue reading →

Princeton University Press, having found me by courtesy of Google, sent me a copy of a new book, asking me to write a review.  The book is an identification guide to the Bumble Bees of North America, a subject of … Continue reading →

Yesterday I revisited the hive on my allotment to make a second attempt at splitting them using Ron Brown’s method described in his pamphlet: A Simple Two-Queen System.  This time the weather was a little warmer and they had had … Continue reading →