2025: Cliffe Castle Bee Blog number 6 Sunday 11 May brought a very warm morning for Lee and I to check the observation hive for a viable...

Blog number 5 - 5th May 2025 Today, Anthony, student beekeeper Jacqui and I found that the spring build up in the observation hive...

Blog number 4, 28th April 2025 Steve and I checked the observation hive this morning - and what a change in the weather from last week!...

Blog number 3 - 21st April 2025 A chilly, wet, morning for Lee and I to check the observation hive today, but it was necessary. Bee-Yonce...

Blog 2 - 14th April 2025 Anthony and I checked the observation hive this morning and found Bee-Yonce and the gang in good shape. She is...

The bees are back in our wooden observation hive at Cliffe Castle for the new season.

A glorious autumn day at Cliffe Castle was the perfect setting for our honey show as part of the Museum's annual Apple Day event. Our...

Congratulations to young visitors Lilly and Joe, both aged 9 years, who suggested the name that was chosen for our new queen of 2024. She...

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #18 If you visit Cliffe Castle now, and any time before the Easter school holidays 2025, I’m afraid you will...

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #17 Anthony and I checked the bees this morning (2nd September), the last inspection before they go to their...

Lee and I were joined by Caroline, from the National Bee Unit team*, when we completed our weekly check today. Caroline was visiting to...

After a glitch last week that prevented us from completing an inspection, Steve and I visited this morning to find our new queen has...

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #14   I’m very pleased to say, that after another, long, 3 weeks of waiting Lee and I spotted our latest new...

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog # 13 Oh dear! Today’s inspection found that our new queen had left the hive in a swarm. She had laid up an...

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #12 On Monday 1st July, guest Observation Hive Team member, Mike Latham, kindly stood in for Lee, who was...

2024: Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #11 Steve and I went back to the Observation Hive this morning to provide the bees with material from which...

2024: Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #10 Sadly, the poor weather we are experiencing this “summer” must have affected our new queen managing to...

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #9 We had a good inspection on Spring Bank Holiday Monday. Steve and I checked the bees for the first time in...

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #8 On 12 May, Mike and I went back to check for any new queen cells raised by the bees since 6 May in the...

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #7 Mike and I found charged, but damaged, queen cells on the bottom of one frame and some cells on other...