Inside the honey bee hive

This weekend I met a friend, Elke Haege, a landscape architect and consulting arborist, at the Australian Garden Show at Centennial Park and she promised me some photos of her introduced honey bees and hive in her garden at Paddington, Sydney.

European honey bee

Elke says:

“I was inspecting my hives this morning and took a few pictures.  This time of the year is really all about regular inspections to prevent swarming.

Gee you have to really keep on top of them with all this warm spring weather.

 There are a number of swarm prevention methods, one of them we discussed on the weekend is splitting (or dividing the hive).  I will be doing that probably this weekend if you are interested to come and see /meet the bees. (I have protective gear for you).

Oh, and one of the photos is of a cockatoo that visited me this morning at dawn. He was having a munch on the jasmine flowers.”

Cockatoo this morning having brekky of jasmine flowers

Just some of the wildlife in Paddington this morning, and there are more photos on Elke’s blog.

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