Sophia hive blog posts.

Science Week 2020 School Workshops!
The SOPHia project is offering two online workshops for schools during Science Week 2020, as part of the Limerick Festival of Science. The SOPHia project […]
Sophia hive blog posts.
The SOPHia project is offering two online workshops for schools during Science Week 2020, as part of the Limerick Festival of Science. The SOPHia project […]
A wooden hive would not survive very long in the raw state, i.e. untreated wood, so chance select paints were chosen from remnants found in […]
After considerable delay the wooden hive (National configiration) finally arrived from Donegal Bees: First, the contents were unpacked. Was surprised to find that there were […]
I’m reliably informed that both mother queens and baby queens are doing well in both the Knockainey (Sophia) and Foxgrove (Rockbarton) sites. The new Sophia […]
It has been two weeks since the Sophia colony was split to generate a spin-off swarm (artificial swarm). Recall that this entailed taking the original […]
Because of Covid 19 related delays in delivery of a completely new and robust Beehivemonitoring system, it was decided that the old sensor system – […]
Recently I bought a nucleation box to have just in case our colony decided to swarm. Unfortunately I forgot to order brood frames and foundation […]
Just as I had given up on getting the repaired units back from Slovakia, brand new replacement units appeared in my postbox. And that was […]
It is almost a year since we ventured into the amazing world of bees. The Sophia colony has survived the Irish winter, although I can’t […]
With the late Autumn sunshine last week, the apiary bees took full advantage to do some late autumn stocking up of supplies, particularly pollen provided […]
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