Back to bees, again
by Chris, 23 November, 2012, 1 comments
Further to the woodlands post about ‘bees and weather’, the British Beekeepers Association has announced that honey yields from hives are substantially down. The average annual yield per hive is about 13.6 Kg but this year the figure is averaging 3.6 Kg per hive – down by over 70%. The worst results were for the London hives, where the figure was down to 2.5 Kg / hive.
Most beekeepers have attributed this fall to the (wet) weather. Bees had a poor start to the year as the poor weather this Spring (April onwards) limited the bees foraging - for early crops, such as oil seed rape. The rain was also a feature of early summer - June and July, for much of the country. Read more...
