Observed arrival · 2026-09-18
Bramble Path Bees, a beekeeping notebook from the Taunus
A detailed diary of four hives above Frankfurt, covering inspections, forage, swarming, mite treatment, and winter losses.
- For
- Beekeepers tracking colonies across changing seasons
- Worth noticing
- The winter table records colony outcomes from 2020/21 through 2025/26, including losses and stated causes.
Field notes
The diary separates observations made at the hives from later transcription, while preserving the keeper's uncertainty in the recorded numbers. Its archive is organized around seasonal decisions rather than generic beekeeping advice, with entries on brood patterns, stores, forage gaps, queen cells, mite trays, and treatment timing. The winter table provides a compact comparison across six seasons and attaches brief causes to several colony losses.
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