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A friend rang me (a deeply amateur beekeeper with one hive) to tell me that she had a swarm of bees in her garden. That the swarm had been sitting on a thistle for about four days, in the rain. And what should she do. Anyhow, we scooped it up into a pillowcase and brought it about two miles to...

I am, as I have always been, a bit incompetent. I have one hive. I got it from one of our dear admins and it has done v well. I took no honey from it last year. A little the year before (thin and horrid) which I replaced with sugar. This year I got a rammed jammed super in late June. Took off...

I live in E Sussex. I have two hives. We get by, the hives and me. But I don't really know what I am doing. It's all hit and miss (and a bit of help, thanks, from this forum). I had a look at the Plumpton bee courses. There's one for intermediates (no qualification) but it's 30 weeks (sort of...

Hello again. I have two hives. A full one, with which I had a muddle last year that this forum helped me with. It's a brood box and a super, with queen excluder above the super (don't ask), and another super. There's nothing doing in the top super and I went to have a look at it with my nine...

In my garden, there is a bee that is much more common on my asters than my honey bees. It's like a large fly, v shaped wings, and with orrange sides to a dark abdomen. What is it? Lots of them S8

After two failures (a hive that swarmed; then a wild swarm that failed), I was very kindly sold a nuc last autumn (thank you, Heather) which has done very well and is now drawing out the foundation in the super I have put on top of the brood box and I will have honey, I think. My problem is...