Sophia hive blog posts.
Sophia Hive – One Year On
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 […]
Bee Wise
Expansion Room and Honey Show
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 […]
September Sunshine
We hope to place observation cameras on a hive to monitor flight patterns and general colony behaviour. The ‘Beehivemonitor’ system integrated with the Sophia hive […]
Finishing Touches
The focus of yesterday’s work at the Three Counties apiary was on labeling the jarred honey. The Three Counties Beekeeping Association use only native Irish […]
Honey Extraction
The ThreeCounties beekeepers rented the community hall in Knocklong for three days (22nd to 24th Aug) in order to set up a honey extraction unit […]
Contemplating Harvest
Arrangements have been made to harvest this year’s bounty of honey. First, clearing boards – basically a one-way zebra crossing system for bees that allows […]
Honey Accumulation
It has been a couple of weeks since an update on the hive has been posted (vacation time). However, Three Counties Beekeepers have been busy […]
Sophia Queen Bee Marking
Today was warm and a little breezy at the apiary. The Sophia hive was inspected and all appears to be well within. The picture underneath […]
Bee Hive Monitor Installed
Thanks to Pauline and Alan, the scales and ‘Hive Heart’ were installed this evening. Testing is on-going but you may be able to see live […]
Delivery and Testing of Bee Hive Monitoring System
The bee hive monitoring system arrived from Slovakia last Wednesday. Only took a week from online order to delivery! A mobile data sim card was […]