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Saw this and thought of all the beehive historians and possibly DIY-ers.

Does the composition of bee venom vary between colonies which then result in a large range of reactions? Following a bad reaction to a sting from a specific colony in our garden, we moved our hives to a farm. My husband was also stung several times on his hands from the same colony and...

We had a shock at the weekend when we found that our two very strong colonies had eaten almost 2 supers each of their honey (lucky we managed to have a taste from 1 frame). We're in Hertfordshire, where there are plenty of garden flowers around and the bees had been flying everyday bringing back...

Please would anyone explain if there is any unusual activity in the colony left in a hive whilst the virgin Queen is absent on a mating flight? I've just been to our queenless hive and seen an increased amount of flying activity around it, plus the hive is very noisy compared with the other...

Does anyone know if the use of digestate (commercial fertiliser produced from the anaerobic digestion of kitchen waste) has any effect on honey bees? It has to be one of the most revolting, smelliest substances ever known and the farmer who farms the field 100 feet from my bees is spreading it...

Following on from posting my question about queen cells in the introductions section yesterday I can add a little more; Last night we looked in the hive containing the queenless nuc that we had previously united with the swarm of our own bees. It is now some weeks since either have had a queen...