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Was very happy to see this, do hope it’s correct! https://beekeepingbasic.com/bees-kept-on-notre-dames-roof-have-survived-the-fire/

Found in Sainsbury's today 'Organic English Wildflower Honey' 'produce of EC and non-EC countries'. (Sorry it's decided to lay on its side!) Just what constitutes English honey? Is it enough that it's packaged in this country? Or is it a case for Trading Standards?

Being driven nearly stir crazy by my GP's instruction to stay away from bees (after ending up in A&E with a systemic reaction to a sting) I've been researching bees from the safety of indoors. I'm curious if any of you have noticed where on your money you can see three bees and a hive. Will post...

"RARE bee-eaters are breeding on the Isle of Wight for the first time. The pair of colourful birds have set up home on National Trust land in the sandy hills of the Wydcombe Estate, near Whitwell. They have become only the third pair of this exotic European bird to breed successfully in...

4 weeks after hiving a smallish swarm (3 seams) into a poly nuc I found that that there was sealed drone brood in the frames and although there were plenty of eggs there were multiples in some cells. I found a perfectly good looking queen and had to make a decision whether to squish her there...

Just discovered Italian Propolis Liquorice, really yummy and I guess it has the beneficial properties of propolis too. Now to brew up my imitation recipe - anybody already done this who can help me avoid reinventing the wheel? :spy:

By chance saw the farmer in the field next to my hives just now, putting up notices. He had sprayed the field yesterday (when I was not there) with a weedkiller called POLO, which he says is sufficiently toxic that no cattle, dogs or walkers should go into the field for two weeks. My hives are...

Came across this blog with beautiful stencils for bee-themed pumpkins (in case you've nothing better to do!) http://romancingthebee.com/2013/10/16/beautiful-beekeeping-carving-bee-pumpkins/

Feeding syrup after giving a colony new BB frames (swarm into old empty hive). I'm baffled by the fact that they simply will not take it from a rapid feeder (cup over bowl type) despite dribbling a track or two down through the central aperture. They're happy to use contact feeders (upside-down...

After multi-checking my weakest hive (no queen, emergency queen cell, still no queen, patience, long wait and eventually a frame of brood from another hive, I resigned myself to the fact that it really was queenless and bought a new queen. She was swiftly accepted, and after a couple of weeks I...

Setting out on the adventure of keeping a few chooks on the Spring - layers and for the pot, hopefully. I also have a fancy for a couple of Guinea-fowl. Anyone out there with advice to offer? :cheers2:

Have viewed with amazement a number of spring-flowering magnolias here flowering in the autumn. Have now just seen a large acacia Dealbata (mimosa tree) in full leaf covered in flower buds not far from bursting into its beautiful yellow pompoms. (What are the bees going to make of that!) I'm...

Cool and misty here today, with only a vague indication of where the sun is behind the clouds, yet my bees are going absolutely apeshit as if there will be no tomorrow - ivy flow on for certain, but I've never seen them this concentratedly busy. Normally in this weather they would be inside...

Reflecting on the number of posts here where beekeepers are going nuts trying to find and eliminate old queens or drone-laying workers before introducing a new queen, and having been there myself, I am prompted to ask what the implications might be of simply putting a caged new queen, breaking...

You're not going to believe this (not sure I do either!) Hive had been Q- since well before 20 Jun. I put some scrounged grubs in on that date hoping for the emergency QC or some positive sign. Nothing - which is why I waited until now to requeen, as I read the lack of reaction to mean there was...

Despite the cold and the unremitting drizzle I just went to make a cursory check on my bees. I put fondant on a couple of days ago and I find it almost completely gone today, only a tiny smidgin left. I had put on almost as much as they used during the entire Winter so pretty shocked that they...

Just seen what I initially took to be a large queen wasp under the hive, robbing the body of a dead bee. However its black chevrons down the back had a centre like a sharp black spike, not separated, and I have not seen a QW looking like that before round here. Have studied the BBKA pictures of...

Casually put up a spare National and a poly Nuc as bait hives last week. They each had some drawn frames from a colony I combined last Autumn and a bit of the old lemon-grass oil. There are no other bee-keepers within a mile or so of me, so I did it to tempt fate and as a long back-stop just in...