Honey Bee Year (List) | Claire Murthy Studio

Honey Bee Year

Watercolour design for garden stationery apple and blossom

Discover a few of Izzie's challenges and some events that happen over her season.

1.1

The Incredible Foraging Map

When Izzie Lizzie is flying around the countryside, she knows precisely where she is going...

1.2

Snowed Under

It seems like the honey bees are hibernating for winter, but they are vibrating their wings and huddling together to keep warm ...

2.1

Protecting the Hive

It isn't only the weather that threatens Izzie's hive over winter. Hungry birds, such as the green woodpecker, will attack her hive to get to the food inside...

Painting of honey bees on their cleansing flight

2.2

First Flight Cleansing Relief

The honey bees don’t go out one-by-one but they do go out in a somewhat orderly race!

Delicate daffodils painted in watercolour

3.1

Daffodils, the First Signs of Spring

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead." – A A Milne

Watercolour painting of an apiary which has been flooded

4.1

Water Damage from Spring Rain

April rain from a storm have left the apiary at risk of water damage...