Here's a snippet from our latest monthly update for the lovely people at French Entrée on what's happening in the hives in February...
"It’s been a bitterly cold couple of weeks in the Charente, but the
returning cranes reassure me that we’re now heading towards Spring and
better weather. Given the amount of icing sugar our bees have been
consuming this winter, I am expecting them to emerge into the sunshine
with fat tums. They’ll be thirsty too so I’ll be putting out water for
them, taking care that they won’t drown in it. Saucers of water with
bee-rafts (pieces of floating wood) and plant pots full of soil sitting
in small pots of water (the soil soaks up the water and the bees can
take the moisture from the soil) are ideal. It’s at this time of year
that bemused owners may observe bees drinking at the edge of their
swimming pools; they’re not fussy."....
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