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This has appeared on the BBKA FB page and there doesn't seem to be a thread on it yet. Whilst you should all be vigilant, those in Kent need to be especially so. It's a bit close for comfort for me and I've ordered some Vespa Catch traps from Thornes. A good excuse to watch the bees for a...

I've been playing with the new GPT3 chatbot and it's scary how good Machine Learning/AI is getting. It can be useful: But it's also very easy to generate plausible-sounding articles that are totally fictional. The Internet has always had an element of "reader beware" but it's about to get a...

I was in Lidl earlier and spotted some soft-set French lavender honey (£3.99/375g). Knowing (perhaps incorrectly?) how particular the French are about their food and controlled regions of origin etc I'm more confident that this is "proper" honey than soft set from Rowse/Hilltop. If I were to...

The small solar wax melter in Bee Equipment's new range caught my eye recently - The Alchemist Cheaper than others I'd looked at (Thorne and Abelo primarily) and being all stainless there's no need to worry about rust/rot so I took the plunge (BEECRAFT10 code helped ;)) A few of the edges are...

I was just making up a batch of elderflower cordial following the River Cottage recipe when it occurred to me that it's not much more than elderflower-infused 1:1 syrup. I wonder what the resulting product would be like if you made up several litres and fed it to the bees until they capped it...

Just a heads up that the Haynes Bee Manual is currently on Amazon "Lightning Deal" for £13.50 until midnight. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857338099 I've finally succumbed to black friday pressure and bought something!

My bees swarmed earlier in the year, I took the opportunity to give them a precutionary OA vape with my gas-vap a couple of days after the new queen started laying but brood not yet sealed - hardly any varroa drop. Early July. I treated with MAQS in the first week of August - again hardly any...