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The apiary this morning; a real sense of springtime

#bees #Warré #naturalbeekeeping
February 16, 2024 at 12:41 PM
pguythompson.bsky.social
#bees #naturalbeekeeping
pguythompson.bsky.social Guy Thompson @pguythompson.bsky.social · Feb 12
About 50cm of hollowed out log with a very thick lid (~20cm) up inside the straw hackle (roof). The legs take it about 2M off the ground. It was made by Matt Somerville at beekindhives.uk
Bee Kind Hives – sustainable beekeeping
beekindhives.uk
February 12, 2024 at 9:32 AM
vvladk.bsky.social
Beekeeper's life.
Polissia, Ukraine

#NaturalBeekeeping #Polissya #Ukraine #RuralUkraine #Nature #Apiculture #TraditionalBeekeeping #Beekeeping #photo #country #naturephotography #photos #photographie #photography
May 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
vvladk.bsky.social
Beehives.
Polissia, Ukraine
#TreeTrunkHive #NaturalBeekeeping #Polissya #Ukraine #RuralUkraine #WoodenHive #Nature #Apiculture #TraditionalBeekeeping #Beekeeping #photo #country #naturephotography #photos #photographie #photography
May 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
pguythompson.bsky.social
Finally here!

#beekeeping #warre #naturalbeekeeping #bees #environment #climate #heat
November 29, 2023 at 12:16 PM
my-eagleheart.bsky.social
The most wonderful sound in the world 🐝🐝🐝🐝❤️❤️❤️❤️ who agrees?

#bees #beelove #apismellifera #apiary #naturalbeekeeping
April 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
pguythompson.bsky.social
A log hive mimics a natural tree cavity that honey bees chose in the wild. Well insulated, controllable humidity … what’s not to like?
#rhswisley #bees #naturalbeekeeping
February 6, 2024 at 2:53 PM
pguythompson.bsky.social
Raining, so waxing top bars for the new hives

#warré #naturalbeekeeping #beekeeping
February 14, 2024 at 10:44 AM
pguythompson.bsky.social
Skep Making 2024!

#bees #beekeeping #naturalbeekeeping #apiculture
December 17, 2023 at 5:45 PM
pguythompson.bsky.social
The latest Natural Bee Husbandry just dropped through the door! Always great, informative read!

#beekeeping #naturalbeekeeping #learningfromthebees
February 21, 2024 at 10:26 AM
pguythompson.bsky.social
Disconcertingly warm again here today but a joy to see all the colonies out on the doorstep

#surreyhills #bees #beekeeping #warré #naturalbeekeeping 🧵
December 22, 2023 at 4:44 PM
chaleeart.bsky.social
My apiary is finished! 5 hives. 4 are buzzing and queen right. #naturalbeekeeping #layenshives #savethebees #artist
May 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
pguythompson.bsky.social
Hampshire Natural Bees will be running their course “Listen to the Bees” in mid April this year, featuring (amongst others) yours truly 😬

Details on the website.
#beekeeping #warrehive #naturalbeekeeping 🐝

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Hampshire Natural Bees 1
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January 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
pguythompson.bsky.social
Envy…. deepest winter here, but so looking forward to running a Warré course in the spring.

#warré #bees #beekeeping #naturalbeekeeping
December 16, 2023 at 10:31 AM
hermanshoning.bsky.social
#bdimkeren #NaturalBeeKeeping
#InlandseZwarteBij #ApisMelliferaMellifera
projectloveforbees.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/natuurlijk-imkeren-met-liefde-voor-de-imme-biodynamisch-bijenhouden/
May 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
natbeestasmania.bsky.social
We are completing our 100th Lazutin hive. No landing board as bees have short front legs and are used to landing into tree entrance. #naturalbeekeepingtasmania #40beessouth #naturalbeekeeping
Lazutin hive
March 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
pguythompson.bsky.social
At Penbeagle nature reserve above St Ives there is a smashing community orchard that boasts a Warré hive. Drizzly morning but a delight to see, beautifully accompanied by a song thrush, dunnocks, robins, blue tits, long tailed tits. Bliss.
#Cornwall #beekeeping #Warré #naturalbeekeeping
February 2, 2024 at 4:04 PM
my-eagleheart.bsky.social
Slurping a little honey from the honeycomb I just offered to the ladies. 🐝🐝🐝 🍯 I’m so glad they survived the winter and the move to another state with me 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Kore/Persephone lives up to her name 🐝🙏🏼❤️

#bees #bee #beekeeping #honeybees #honeybee #apiary #beekeeperslife #api #bienen #naturalbeekeeping
February 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
pguythompson.bsky.social
Delightful notes on the last meeting of 2023 for Oxfordshire Natural Beekeeping, I particularly like Gareth’s “Lemma” visualisation of the annual colony cycle
#bees #honeybees #naturalbeekeeping
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ONBG meeting, December 2023 – rhythms and hues
In early December, Gilliane welcomed fourteen bee-folk into her house on the edge of Oxford where we discussed insulation, annual colony rhythms and thermal photography of hives, with a large portion ...
oxnatbees.wordpress.com
January 1, 2024 at 12:12 PM
pguythompson.bsky.social
For those of us who have been attacked over the years for not feeding (with pure sugar) our colonies, here is a paper on exactly why it is such a bad thing.

#bees #naturalbeekeeping
December 12, 2023 at 10:46 AM
pguythompson.bsky.social
An excellent write up of the Oxfordshire Natural Beekeepers’ winter meeting ⬇️ #bees #beekeeping #naturalbeekeeping

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ONBG meeting, February 2024 – history and high tech
33 folk were privileged to convene at Christ Church College, Oxford. In 1833 this was the birthplace of Britain's first beekeeping society, the Oxford Apiarian Society, so there was a pleasing sense o...
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February 19, 2024 at 6:21 PM
hermanshoning.bsky.social
#naturalBeekeeping #InlandseZwarteBij
projectloveforbees.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/apis-mellifera-mellifera-zwarte-honingbij/
APIS MELLIFERA MELLIFERA | Zwarte HoningBij
HONINGBIJ (ZWARTE) APIS MELLIFERA MELLIFERA LINNAEUS, 1758 Bron :  wildebijen.nl – zwarte bij OMSCHRIJVING: DE ONDERSOORT APIS MELLIFERA MELLIFERA WORDT OOK WEL DE HEIDE BIJ, DE DUITSE BIJ, DONKERE…
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January 30, 2026 at 6:39 PM
hermanshoning.bsky.social
#bdimkeren #naturalbeekeeping #natuur #InlandseZwarteBij
projectloveforbees.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/natuurlijk-imkeren-met-liefde-voor-de-imme-biodynamisch-bijenhouden/
Natuurlijk Imkeren Met Liefde voor de Imme | Biodynamisch BijenHouden
Apicultuur If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. Al…
projectloveforbees.wordpress.com
May 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
hobvibe.bsky.social
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July 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
mphillpott.bsky.social
In addition, I have just published another essay on Charles Butler on Honeybee Histories honeybeehistories.substack.com/p/charles-bu... This one looks at Butler's use of grammar and his natural approach to beekeeping! #beekeeping #naturalbeekeeping #history
Charles Butler - Grammar and the natural rhythms of the hive
Earlier this year I explored Charles Butler's The Feminine Monarchie in a series of essays. This week we return to that subject with a few extra elements that I didn't have the opportunity to discuss.
honeybeehistories.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM