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A friend who knows I keep bees called me to a swarm. It was a fairly small swarm on the ground a couple of miles away. As I arrived I suspected that they were on the floor due to a lost/dead queen. This is something I have seen before. At the time I ended up using brood to lure them into my box...

I was called to a swarm today at a council estate in Tottenham. The bees were on the floor on a couple of steps near a play area, and there were lots of flying bees. I looked through the cluster for the queen and spotted her. I blew the bees around her and realised she seemed dead which is why I...

Hi all, I am looking to buy around 50 - 100 lbs of unextracted honey (not too far from London) and I can return the extracted frames. Would you be interested? If so please PM me. Thanks Joseph.

Scientists discover bees can tell a Picasso from a Monet http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20114359

In a normal year the main flow in London starts winding down around about now. Small leaf lime and perhaps Privet hedge, are some of what we get. I hope these are flowering late too, so that we get something to extract this year...

‎"I do not think it is so certain or so safe a way of doing good, as by giving a poor man a stock of Bees, and then showing him how to take care of them, and to profit by them; for digging is thirsty work, and the beer-shop often stands hard by the allotment: so, although the labourer after his...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/celebrity-beekeepers-told-to-buzz-off-7854420.html I don't know what to make of this article. I suspect however, that the figure of 31lbs is a complete farce. It is based upon the Regional bee inspector - Alan Byham's honey survey for 2011 which gives...

Does anyone use CbeeWing with wing parameters for more than just AMM and AM Carnica? According to Journal of Apicultural Research 50(1): 51-84 (2011) "In our opinion CBeeWing is not suitable for detection of hybridization in A. m. carnica populations". I wonder how useful it is as a tool in...

Make your own minds up.. http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/sting-operation-to-get-rid-of-bees-1-3901272 A DOCTOR who is an amateur beekeeper has come under stinging criticism for ‘murdering’ thousands of bees in the canal. Bletchley GP Dr Omar Abdalwhab was seen throwing his hive and...

I attended a swarm earlier and knocked the bees into a 6 frame poly nuc with one of these disk entrances: Upon arriving at the new site I set the entrance disk on QX to prevent absconding and watched. The bees tired really hard to come and go via the QX but try as they might they could not...

I had one of my colonies swarm yesterday. It settled on a tree on the street. My dad went out and notified a few of the neighbours close by that it was ours and that we would collect in a few hours time once we got our kit together and when the road was less busy. Instead someone called the...

My bees come through the winter fine on Ivy, however I have quite a few supers full with left overs. What to do with them I do not know and storage till autumn would be a challenge. I do want to go on double brood this season, perhaps the bees would use Ivy as additional food to build wax?

I have marked tens of queens successfully and I clip my queens too. Today however I came across this beauty of a queen, she was huge and staggeringly beautiful. I marked her and all seemed well. I left the (Posca)paint to dry for a few mins, but she seemed dead when I placed her on a frame. I...

This will be my first year that I have OSR in proximity of my hives. I am however right near a large apple orchard. I do not really need the OSR honey so I will not pollen feed, but, I don't want swarming bees and supers filled with congealed honey either. So I will have to let my bees do their...

Hello there, I have a rather serious problem on my hands. I am not sure what I can do about it. The neighbours say that there are those dreaded yellow droppings on their cars, clothes and even books when reading outside. They say that the problem is not something they are prepared to live with...

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