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The 26th saw the passing of E. O. Wilson at the age of 92. He may have been the ant man, but still deserves a mention on the bee forum.

Some time ago I acquired a price list issued by a W. E. E Charter of Tattingstone, Ipswich. There's no date to the list but it does include a series of testimonials from previous customers including one who'd won a queen in a competition. All of them are dated 1908 or early 1909 which suggests...

We have an assortment of non standard equipment, supported by an ability to make it ourselves to our own specs. These boxes however started life as the Mann Lake 'growing boxes' sold by 'bee equipment'. Originally designed to get frames drawn out for their poly mating nucs. We saw an alternative...

The following is a copy (minus the photo which he refers to) of a bee related post which I was just reading on the fb page of Mike Loades. Nice to see bees being used as stunt doubles for hornets!

A couple of years ago, watching one of the Mike Palmer (@Michael Palmer) videos from his National Honey Show visit I was impressed by a small piece of kit which he discussed. Basically it's a simple wax tube (edit: copper tube), used to dispense molten wax along the top edge of a sheet of...

The recent BBC 'Countryfile' episode that paid a visit to Robert Field also used a couple of clips of a 1952 visit to Manley's Chiltern Honey Farm. This has left me wondering about the origin of that footage. Can anyone offer more information?

Hi, Another thread on this forum has got me thinking about the fact that I have a cup-kit queen rearing system stored away, not being used. I don't have it to hand while writing this -it's at the bottom (no doubt) of a box in the store room. If anyone's interested in buying it please pm me and...