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Driving over to Selby this morning. As I approached the town bypass from Camblesforth I noticed an ocean of bright yellow a couple of fields away. A reminder of what's to come? I haven't noticed a significant amount in my locality yet but spring will soon be sprung.

My phone just reminded me about tomorrow's auction. I don't think I'll be attending this year as I have developed an aversion to being stuck with buyers premiums. Beverley manage to run their auction successfully without adding this extra cost onto their lots. Maybe I'm a dinosaur but if the...

1 hour and 33 minutes in. Who knew about the McDonald's bee hive? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9aa7hMWIAACCSt?format=jpg&name=medium

I noticed a few of these have appeared after the flowers have set.

I've not seen this wasp behaviour before today.

At a recent training apiary visit one of the attendees had a couple of bees find a way inside his veil and one stung him to announce it's presence. Expecting to find an improperly secured zip/Velcro flap under the chin surprisingly this was not the case. Instead the access point turned out to be...

Google Lens suggests this is a Hornet mimic fly - Volucella zonaria visiting my Evodia tree. Big. beautiful and stingless 🙂

Patience is required methinks.

Hard work this - having a JRT on my knee and drinking tea. Bees on the flowers and trees and horse eating grass.🖖

I've just received an email advising me that printable information for identifying AH is available if I email apha. I'm thinking it would have been far simpler to attach the printable info as a PDF to the email. Maybe I'm getting intolerant with age?

Since we use sugar to feed our bees for winter etc. this video might be interesting. Note the commentator makes a couple of scientific errors during the commentary.

I was approached by a fellow beekeeper enquiring if I had any MAQS to spare. I was told MAQS was out of stock in al the usual sources. As it happened I found a still sealed pack of two at the back of my storeroom but it must have lain there for three years at least so it would be significantly...

We acquired a JRT earlier this year from a household with a toddler that was supposedly at risk of being nipped. He is quite territorial but we're experienced in the nuances of the breed. Suffice it to say our house is now "his home". For a few weeks he spent ages lying ta the bottom of a...

Recalling my new beekeeping friend and her baptism of fire with multiple swarms. Even after all the swarming with consequent reduction of honey crop yield, up to Sunday her bees had filled two supers. Not all capped but solidly retaining honey with enthusiastic shake testing. Yesterday evening...

Our village Facebook group had a post calling for help with some bees swarming. Turned out to be a new keeper who had completed a beginners course last year in another county then started with a WBC hive late last summer which came through the winter satisfactorily. Unfortunately she lives smack...

Following a recent inspection I found swarm preps underway in a couple of colonies and pagdened them. This prompted a check of spare equipment with a discovery of wax moth web and damage in one of the spare brood boxes. I've got some dipel so apart from removing chrysalis for combustion I...

I've just heard from a beekeeper in Hook near Goole that the bee inspector has confirmed EFB in his apiary. The colonies are being destroyed. Bad news indeed.

We are being persuaded to replace boilers with heat pumps as a national policy. In fact when my old oil boiler approached the end of its life I took the step, encouraged by Renewable Heat Initiative grant towards the cost. As my system has an Air Source Heat Pump which delivers hot water to the...

Anyone identify this bug?

Autumn colours on my Evodia Hupehensis (Bee Bee Tree.)