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Hampshire (Church Crookham) Beekeeper

It's been so hot! Bees are pretty good at thermo-r It's been so hot!
Bees are pretty good at thermo-regulating their internal hive environment. There are several strategies they use if it's getting too hot internally (bearing in mind they have to keep the brood area at ~36C for safe brood rearing). To cool the internal temperature they:
- Collect and bring back water to the hive, where it's spread on the internal surfaces. As it evaporates it helps cool the hive. (A bit like the "swamp coolers" we sometimes use). As beekeepers we have half a mind where sources of water are for our colonies, and supply shallow areas for ease of collection. 
- They generate an airflow through the hive from bottom to top, by standing and fanning at the entrance. As beekeepers we open up the hive entrances and provide vent holes in the roofs to help the process. 
- On a warm summer night - when all the population is back home, if it's still too warm inside, those bees not needed inside the hive will exit and cluster outside to reduce the number of bodies inside the hive (see picture taken just a few days ago of one of my hives in the garden doing just this).
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Here's a brief summary of how we extract and bottl Here's a brief summary of how we extract and bottle our honey!
Well, this spring has arrived very early and with Well, this spring has arrived very early and with alot of sunshine! The colonies have all recovered from winter and are strong very early - we’re even getting swarm calls already. It looks like the spring nectar flow is well underway and all being well we will have some spring honey - probably late May/early June.
We’re nearly ready with the 2025 spring honey – We’re nearly ready with the 2025 spring honey - supers off the hives and ready to extract. It’s an early crop this year.
It’s ready! Spring Flower 2025 crop is now avail It’s ready! Spring Flower 2025 crop is now available! Same price as last year.
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