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You do seem to have a chip on your shoulder about people with exam certs. I wonder what happened in the past to generate that level of...

Is it wise for a mod to issue veiled threats ? Going back to squirrels. If we could persuade the UK pop of the nutritional value of grey...

If the colony is thriving and producing lots of honey and doesn't attempt to swarm or is easily put off swarming and supersedes the...

Nice day today so visited the out-apiary on the farm to heft the hives. Not been since early december when I trickled Oxalic. No...

Bees still working Hellebores. They are one of the few plants (along with crocus) the bees from the hives in my garden actually bother...

I know someone with 35 colonies that uses Horsely boards routinely for swarm control/prevention and he has also used them successfully...

Be great if sections became popular again . I collect section tureens so would welcome potteries producing them again.

14 C today garden bees are working the Hellebores for pollen

Nosema apis spores look like this

That large tree looks somewhat rotten and with the possibility that large branchs could some time in the near future fall off so not a...

Took this photo a few days ago of the bee cemetery (=concrete slabs) after the undertaker bees had dumped the dead (from two colonies...

Have been called out several times in the past to "swarms" which turn out to be just lots of bees simply foraging cotoneasters.

Often see large groups of hives on the Heather at Yorkshire moors

We have had frozen ground for weeks until yesterday so I half expected to have a woodpecker problem this month (as in some previous...

You can also have Nosema with no dysentery present if the bees have Nosema ceranae. This relatively recent "intro to UK" strain is...