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NOVEMBER 2025
All our colonies are now set for the coming winter. The bees seldom fly during the cold months and only take cleansing flights (toilet breaks!) on dry sunny days.
Although the bees are very good at maintaining the temperature (32c – 36c) inside their hive by social thermoregulation, we do give them a helping hand by insulating the outside walls of each beehive.
Mouse guards are placed over the entrance of each hive allowing bees to enter and exit freely but not allowing mice to find a cosy winter home.
We will be checking the weight of each hive throughout the winter months, ensuring the bees have enough food stores to see them through to next spring.

OCTOBER 2025
Again, good news for our hard working bees, picking up five awards for honey and honeycomb at the UK NATIONAL HONEY SHOW, the world’s biggest and most prestigious honey show.
The bees were delighted when we told them the good news!

SEPTEMBER 2025
Success for Vale Beekeepers at the prestigious annual SURREY HONEY SHOW.
We won (with the help of our bees!) a total of thirteen awards, including awards for our runny honey and round section honeycomb.

JULY 2025
Our bees have worked extremely hard making more surplus honey which we have extracted and is now on sale. They have also filled special round frames making delicious HONEYCOMB, again, now on sale.
See our ‘HONEY’ page for details.

15 May 2025
A much better start to 2025 compared with the cold wet Spring of last year. All our colonies survived the Winter and our queens started laying early and the brood is building nicely.
The recent warm spell has resulted in an abundance of nectar, so different to last Spring when nectar flows were delayed and the bees were unable to forage during the long cold wet spell. The bees have worked hard and have already given us a surplus Spring honey crop, some of which we will extract over the coming weekend.
We will leave it to settle before putting in jars ready for sale by around the Spring Bank Holiday (26 May).

The bees making the most of the sunshine today bringing in plenty of pollen (protein) for the brood. They carry the pollen back to the hive on their rear legs (pollen baskets). See photo below….

A good day for flying……..