Sophia Hive 2 Painted
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 […]
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Swarm Catcher
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bee Gates and Busy Bees
(Image credit: Vincent Casey)
Upgrading of Beehive Monitoring System
(All image credits: Vincent Casey) The major monitoring system components. A ‘gate’ system bee counter – counts bees going in and out. The hive heart […]
Women Scientists – Making Headway Every Day!
Age group 3rd – 6th classTotal time: 30mins – 1hr Outline: To learn about some important women physicists and their scientific discoveries One of our […]
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 […]
Wooden Hive Assembly
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 […]
Mothers and Babies are Well
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 […]
Sophia Expansion Update
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 […]
Hive Splitting
Because of Covid 19 related delays in delivery of a completely new and robust Beehivemonitoring system, it was decided that the old sensor system – […]