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Quite surprised that a professional beekeeper on bbc breakfast this morning would say a way to help bees would be to put out a saucer of sugar water to help warn out bees.

Got a call this morn from a lady saying she had a swarm of bees in a bush in her garden chest hight. It was about ten miles away She rang somebody and they wanted £80 for removing the swarm. I don't charge for removing if I get the bees but if they want to donate something that's up to them. Do...

Saw the other day on east midland news 3 hives with bees stolen in derbyshire

We are looking after our sons dog while he is on holiday, Went through the bees and they were very angry,is it possible the bees could smell the dog on me and didn't like it. Will

Got an e-mail from defra about varroa and if they need feeding give them 1-1 syrup, I thought it should be 2-1 this time of year

A week ago Lidl selling microscope and kit for £39-99 now selling on ebay for £99-99+ £12-00 p+p What a cheek

BBC2 tomorrow night 9pm till 10pm

Got a call from a friend on Tues about a swarm in the apex of a 2 story house very high like 3 stories to the apex, to high for ladder so put a bait hive on 6ft wall next to it, a few interested before I got it all set up, I left over night went back Wed morn about 10-30 Bees gone from apex...

Bright Blue pollen coming in today anybody know what from, I cant find it anywere

Just got this from my sister, She made it for my Christmas pressy Will

I tried to mark a queen the other day with crown of thorns, I had marked one then as going through another hive decided to mark that one as I fond her but I put the crown of thorns over the queen the bees balled all over the crown of thorns and my hand, gentle blow to remove them and they all...

With all the bees being stolen nowadays why not use the same dyes that banks use when you open the money box all the money gets covered in purple dye, You could fix it to the crown board, so when the thief gets them home when he opens up and removes the crown board every thing gets covered in...

Just saw on the local news this morning Leicester City Council has banned a beekeeper from keeping bees on his allotment, they say they didn,t like bees flying round and it is against a byelaw to keep live stock on the allotments, Will

BBC 2 8pm tonight African queen Honey bee

Yesterday checked hives all flying, but then noticed queen wasp flying wondered if they would start to nest with this mild winter then perish when it came to cold for them, Oh yes put my foot on that one,

honey hunters on bbc4 now

Remember the vandals who kicked my bees over on my allotment, well hears the outcome, Police report of man in his thirties going to the doctors with multiple bee stings day after the event gave false name and address case closed. Will

I went up the allotment yesterday to check and found my bees had been kicked over, All hive upside down and bees everywhere, The bees had propolised brood box, q/e, super, crownboard all together and it didn,t come apart, so put it back on stand and removed it to new location, now waiting to see...

BBC 4 Tonight 2200 2300 may be good to watch