My First Experience of Beekeeping
by Deb
(England)
A Typical Garden Bee Hive
Hi Jan,
I wanted to do something for our honey bees, knowing they are in trouble with Colony Collapse Disorder.
I asked the beekeeping associations in my area, Staines, England if there was anyone wanting to put their honey bee hives in my garden.
I finally found someone and he brought along a starter hive. The honey bees were very placid and were no trouble at all.
My garden isn’t very big but it was fine for the bees and I loved watching them. They would take off from the hive and immediately fly up and off.
Unfortunately they were attacked by a local wasp nest, which I couldn’t find; otherwise I would have destroyed it.
So later on in the summer I found the bee hive empty, it was very sad.
The bee keeper will bring me a new hive soon and this time I’ll make sure there are no wasp nests around.
My friends are also interested in giving over a part of their garden to a hive so if you have any contacts in the bee world please let me know.
My bee man only covers the Pooley Green area.
Deb
