2005 Summary:

Winter 2005: A cold wet start

April 2005: Spring Inspections

May 2005: A swarm from Huntington

June 2005: Agressive hives and Bumblebees

July 2005:

August2005:

September 2005: Honey Harvest

October/November 2005: Honey Show success

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2005 Summary

winter

2005 was quite a mixed year for us. A cold wet start to the year saw us loose our best hive.

a dead hive

A swarm that we had collected in 2004 turned out to be very very vicious.
Our aim for 2006 will be to tame these beasts.

aggressive hive
Dad & John look at the agggressive hive:

fastened-up
Packed-up & ready to go to Flaxton

 

As to a final twist to the year we were very suprised to come second in our local honey show, winning a special prize for our block of wax.

wax