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“This is the way the season ends, not with a bang but a whimper”, with apologies to T.S. Eliot {{1}}.
A few weeks ago I felt I was struggling to keep up, now I'm looking for things to do.
Well … almost 😉.
Beekeeping is a seasonal activity. In my part of the world, I'm busy from early April until late August.
In some seasons things start early...
The Plain English Campaign promote (not unsurprisingly) the use of plain English {{1}}, and have campaigned against “gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information” since 1979. Their website has several (clearly written 😉) guides to using plain English; using shorter or ...
Like anglers, beekeepers often obsess about the weather.
They both need something to blame when things go less well than they had hoped. How many times have you heard “too little rain, no nectar” or “too hot, they weren't biting” ?
Or, to give them the benefit of the doubt, this compulsion healthy concern simply reflects the influence of the weat...
The solution to what?
The solution to the three-part problem that increasingly faces beekeepers wanting to minimise Varroa mite populations and reduce their winter colony losses.
These are:
Increasing resistance — and the geographic spread of this resistance — to the 'hard chemical' miticides like