🐝Quantock Queen

Beekeeper interested in raising healthy, happy bees. Teach others in the craft. Produce & sell Honey, Honeycomb, Beeswax candles and Wax food wraps. 🐝🍯

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

Lots of (slo-mo) activity at the orchard apiary mid-day today. Small amounts of pollen coming in and a few crash landings! 🐝
@britishbee #BeekeepersHour

[Wildlife and Countryside Link @WCL_News]

Approving banned pesticide for 4th year in a row shows that the ban is a sham👎

These toxic pollutants add to a #ChemicalCocktail that puts both wildlife & public health at risk🐝💚

Government must uphold the ban & fund nature-friendly farming practices

https://t.co/TqvF3Ce6Xv

[Emily Heckscher @quantocknature]

Yet again hunt activity trashing the #sssi . Horses and motorbikes on a footpath on protected land. If it had been mountain bikers there would be uproar. @NaturalEngland @quantockhills

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

@ElmTreeBees These 2 biggies mean I am just the same height as the top. They're in an orchard & flowers are over so shouldn't get any bigger (I hope!). May have to take the top 2 supers off frame by frame they're so heavy and high! Nice problem to have!

[Api:Cultural @apiculturalLdn]

Spare time? What’s that?

[Robert Valcov 🐝 @RobertValcov]

MY DAILY BEE FACTOID

•Bees fly more than once around the world to gather 1 lb of honey.
•The average life of a honey bee during the working season is about 6 weeks.
•Nectar gathered by the bee contains about 70% water. Honey is about 17% water.

Please RT. #savethebees

[Robert Valcov 🐝 @RobertValcov]

DAILY BEE FACTOID

#HoneyBees wax is true wax unlike paraffin, a petroleum byproduct. Beeswax is secreted from glands 2 build comb 4 brood rearing &2 store food. It is used in drugs, cosmetics, artists' materials, chocolate, furniture polish & candles.

Please RT #savethebees

[Robert Valcov 🐝 @RobertValcov]

MY DAILY BEE FACTOID:

HONEYBEES eat honey to make BEESWAX: 7 lb of honey to make 1 lb wax! Wax is secreted in flakes from 8 glands under the bee's abdomen. Then they mold the wax into the perfect honeycomb structure. Humans use it in many ways.

Please FOLLOW & RT. #savethebees

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

It’s time for the MOD to end fox hunting on their land .

Please RT and sign the petition : https://t.co/aacxD1Yyh3

@ProtectTheWild_ @DefenceHQ

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

Interesting weather for March! Overnight snowfall.
Made sure yesterday that all my colonies had emergency fondant and were strapped tightly.
Love the silence from snowfall.

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

Please take action and retweet 🐝🪲🐞🦋

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

@BeekeepersHour I've been cleaning hive equipment, during the brief time in the day when it's not too freezing outside but not too warm to attract a crowd of investigators (bees of course).
It's Somerset BKA lecture day on Saturday, in person again at last. Yay, can't wait.
#BeekeepersHour

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

@BeekeepersHour Oh there you are, is it the weather or just Twitter jitters?

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

PLEASE, sign this petition.
https://t.co/BloQXFuS0P
Whether you're a beekeeper or not 🐝
Whether you care for wildlife or not 🦋
Whether you eat sugar or not 🧁
Whether you care about your health or not ❤️‍🩹
Whether you're human or not 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👽

It takes less than a minute ⏳

Thanks🫶

[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

This petition calling for the derogation allowing farmers to use banned #neonics on sugar beet to be overturned needs your help! Pls sign & RT
At Montreal COP15 we signed up to bold pesticide reductions.
We need goverment actions that follow their words.
https://t.co/R7lE8h3a4y

[Apimondia @apimondia]

In the central plains of Venezuela, Ligia Elena Moreno Veliz gets up at 5:30 am to meet her bees.

She likes to go when it is dark out, when the bees are less active; so she either goes first thing in the morning or in the evening after nightfall.

https://t.co/0LPClDMZx9

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

What!!!💔

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

BREAKING: The government just approved the use of a BANNED bee-killing pesticide AGAIN!

One teaspoon of the pesticide is enough to kill 1.25 billion bees - it should be kept away from them!
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Who else thinks the government should listen to the science and NOT the sugar lobby?

[Emily Heckscher @quantocknature]

@QuantockQueen @Quantockhills @Natures_Voice @WoodlandTrust Very early, I think! @_BTO

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

@quantocknature @Quantockhills @Natures_Voice @WoodlandTrust I've heard one a few times this week, I'm sure it's a bit early...
Or is it?

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

It’s that sad time of the year when the last few, unsold Christmas candles get melted down….. to make new, non-Christmas ones for New Year!
All that’s left to do is finish them & wrap for sale.

Then loads of prep for the new beekeeping season 2023.

#BeekeepersHour
#Britishbee

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

Lovely morning on the Quantock hills this morning for my walk. Who needs a gym with these slopes to climb.

@quantocknature
@Quantockhills
@FrofQuantock
@QuantockLPS

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

Finished craft sales for Christmas, checked colonies, weighed, cleared behind mouseguards, (dead bees following the cold spell). Getting ready for Christmas visitors (human!).
Happy holidays to all your followers #BeekeepersHour 😊 see you in 2023. 👋 🐝

[🐝Quantock Queen @QuantockQueen]

Good evening.

[🐝#BeekeepersHour @BeekeepersHour]

Good evening everyone 👫

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Clock in, and give everyone a wave 👋

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Who's ready for Christmas?

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It's #BeekeepersHour 🌼