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National Trust members email with a beekeeping video: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/members-area Interesting he talks about disease/pest control and then immediately shows an emmerging bee with a varoa mite. That's either irony or intention.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50551385 Not news to anyone here I imagine.

My two swarms I caught this year are coming along nicely. I am confident that they will have the brood boxes full going in to winter and that they will have drawn out all 11 frames. I don't think that I will be lucky enough to get a super on at this point. My question is, with the Bramble now...

OK, so I caught a swarm this year and installed them into a National box. They had drawn out 7 of the frames, but there was crazy cross-combing going on, on the first three frames I caught them on. They had double layered, stuck together and generally messed up the bottom box. Today I decided...

A bait hive I set up has had 8 days of sustained activity. 30 - 50 bees fighting it out from 7am until 8pm every day. Inside are some frames with foundation, no food stores at all, so they're not robbing. What is the time slot for potential swarm arrival? I take it that by the fact that the...