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greetings, advice please, I would like to screen our hives from our good neighbours, using willow canes wired together about two meters wide, question! is it best to do it at night when all the bees are in residence, cheers in advance.

honey price, greetings, honey prices for our area, 6 euros for a one kilo jar, direct from the beekeepers, the super markets sell it for a lot less but who knows where it comes from,

sythe redwood, a sharp one would bee a good start,

Enrico, behind the wild comb there is a hole in the rock face, last year we noticed bees zooming in and out, perhaps they have filled the cavity and still need more storage space,

greetings from sunny spain, A couple of photos of wild comb which we spotted whilst on a day out last week, At home our bees are busy on a big eucalyptus in a neighbours garden as well as honeysuckle and bird of paradise tree, strangely enough I have been stung twice by a leaf cutter bee whilst...

sympathy Jbm, massive sympathy for the loss of your hound,they do get under your skin.

greetings from sunny spain, whilst working round the hives this evening I spotted this little lizard eyeing up the bees that were clustered round the entrance, I watched him for five minutes but he never plucked up the courage to dash in and grab one, sensible chap if you ask me,

spanish bees greetings, the bees round by us are flying all year round, we get the odd wet day when there are not so many flying but the almond blossom starts at the turn of the year,

????? sorry bebopalula, you are miles of course with that one!!

tamarisk honey erichalfbee, never had tamarisk honey, but by the sound of it, it may be like Spanish chestnut honey, very dark and strongly flavoured, yeah! a bit like molasses, mmm, cant wait.

greetings, just noticed that the bees are gathering nectar from the tamarisk trees ,looking forward to some dark honey.

cazza, You forgot the grated plain chocolate on top of the mascarpone, mmm mmmm!

BBs greeting a todos, the photos are in the Photo albums section, being Photos! I thought it the best place to put them.

greetings, inspected my hives this morning having been in the UK for two weeks, found fifteen more big black beetles, they seem to be feeding on the uncapped honey, managed to kill most of them but two flew off as I was taking them off the comb, and at long last Ruth has managed to post a couple...

Sunny Spain

Sunny Spain

just inspected my hives this morning and found fifteen of these boys in the fullest hive, they seem to be feeding on the uncapped honey,

young ones, greetings , and welcome, nice to know there are youngsters who enjoy keeping bees.