Beespoke Hive

Great morning at the community garden in Byford ….with this legend Mel from .. children’s workshop building native bee hotels and learning all about our native bees and habitats 😊

Go on enter your honey at the Honey Festival on the 28th May. Entry forms can be found at BICWA website. The bees are wonderful at transforming watery nectar from flowers into thick honey. They mix them with enzymes and they reduce the water content by dividing it into small droplets and fanning their wings to reduce the water concentration. Good honey water content is around 18%, anything over 20% causes to fermentation.

Go on enter your honey at the Honey Festival on the 28th May. Entry forms can be found at BICWA website. The bees are wonderful at transforming watery nectar from flowers into thick honey. They mix them with enzymes and they reduce the water content by dividing it into small droplets and fanning their wings to reduce the water concentration. Good honey water content is around 18%, anything over 20% causes to fermentation.

Today the pollinators like white, we have the native paperbark, grevillea and Marri gum, all producing some nectar. Autumn in SW Australia brings damp mornings and the bees are busy building winter stores. The native flora really helps the pollinators get through the winter months, so please leave some frames on for the colonies to see them through.

Half way through the season of Kambarang. The the garden is undergoing a transformation with the warm change in the weather. We’ve had a few mm’s of rain so only a few brave pollinators are out and about.

Great to get the BFC sign up from Wheen Bee Foundation. In recognition of our organic food and plant production at . Of course how could we not do it without , and the bees!

Great to get the BFF sign up from . In recognition of our organic food and plant production at . Of course how could we not do it without , and the bees!

It’s always nice to have a happy addition to the garden. The new colony in the background is really chilled. A combo of good DNA and some care, means we can get close. Happy gardener and happy 🐝😁

What can you see in this picture? Hint a “walk away split was created 11 days ago