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I've been invited to house a hive (or 2) at a couple of local primary schools. Both schools are extremely keen and already have nature gardens/mini allotments and are sympathetic to the cause of the bee. However, one school is concerned with little Timmy getting stung, and would like to know...

Rather bizarrely, over the past 2 weeks I've gone and collected 3 swarms. 2 are ok...ish, but the 3rd is very small, but, bless her cotton socks, the queen is laying as much as she can despite there only being about 100 or so bees with her. I know survival likelihood is low, but any ideas as...

While replacing foundation, I have amassed a fair amount of old, dirty, wax. At the moment, it's all in clumps in a few dustbin bags in the garage. However, what I want to do is to melt it down and make candles, polish etc. My issue is that it's rather dirty (well, on the surface anyway), so...

(this article is a re-post from my main blog Link removed by admin and is aimed at simplifying beekeeping for those who have more than a passing interest ... so please don't shoot me if it's not technically perfect So, back to my article post...) In my last posting I mentioned that we had...

(this article is a re-post from my main blog www.EssexBees.co.uk and is aimed at simplifying beekeeping for those who have more than a passing interest ... so please don't shoot me if it's not technically perfect :laughing-smiley-004 So, back to my article post...) Early Spring is a busy time...

Now that Richard is focusing his writing skills on our new blog (www.FoodOnOurDoorstep.co.uk), it's time for me to take up the reins and accept my responsibility for maintaining this blog. So with that in mind, coupled with the fact that I still hadn't had official confirmation of what happened...

Hi all, I've been keeping various blogs on both beekeeping and smallholding for a few years now, but only recently joined this site. Not that I'm big headed or anything, or even believe that I've a talent to write anything interesting or amusing, but I do like the idea that someone, somewhere...

Each of my hives have an internal feeder which looks like a bog standard frame but has wood either side of the frame rather than a wax middle. In France I used top feeders, but the hives I purchased here all have these internal frame feeders. The thing is, I've got loads of dead bees in these...

Before I start, I hope I'm adding this to the right section of the forum - if I'm not, can someone [politely] tell me where to shove it :-) I want to add a live webcam to my beekeeping site and while the technical bits of getting a webcam to stream to a site is my kinda thing (I'm a nerd!!!)...