Honey bees are probably the most domesticated insects in the world, if you can describe keeping bees as domesticating them. We have been so successful at keeping bees, that their “wild” cousins, living freely in their natural habitat are not so common any more.
An awesome project called Free Living Honey Bees promotes and shares the joy of seeing honey bees spotting in their natural habitat. You can find information about wild honey bees from the UK and around the world on the website. If you spot a wild bee colony, you can share pictures and videos of it with the community.
Walnut and Squirrel the Indian runner ducks at The Hive
Walnut and Squirrel the Indian runner ducklings
We are excited to welcome Walnut and Squirrel to The Hive. They were two of a clutch of six fertilised Indian runner duck eggs we put in an incubator some 30 days ago. The two lively ducklings are absolutely delightful to watch as they run around eating, drinking or just chilling out!
The popular rhyme that indicated the value of a swarm of bees as the season progresses goes:
A swarm in May is worth a load of hay.
A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon.
A swarm in July isn’t worth a fly.
If we apply a literal translation to the rhyme, I owe Andres Collinson, an awesome natural beekeeper in Little Birch two tonnes of hay. He has given me two swarms in May 2021 so far.
The first lamb to be born at the hive is the ever so cute biscuit, Biscuit was born on the 8th of March 2021, followed a few days later by two more lambs, from two different ewe.
Biscuit and the other two lamb love hanging out by a tree stump on the field. Here is Biscuit and Boo just chilling and looking so cute.
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