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Entry from a house bee's diary: Some funny bloke in a yellow suit that I hadn't seen before was hanging about all day today. Every time there was a bit of sun he took the roof of our house off. Then it would rain and he would put it back again. We were freezing. 30 minutes later he'd be...

I keep my bees in a very mature orchard. There are around 20 apple and pear trees and maybe 20 plum/damson/greengages. I've been picking fruit this week and noticed a lot of bees on the rotting plums along with the wasps and hover flies. Can the bees do anything productive with the plum juice?

I have a colony from a 2010 swarm. The queen was never strong and I was thinking about what to do with her this year. I had to be away on business for three weeks at the end of April/Early May and they swarmed. I didn't see the swarm, but the number of bees halved while I was away. The swarm...

I have a full size plastic contact feeder that I've used successfully before with a National hive. I recently got a new swarm from a beekeeper friend of mine. I attempted to feed the swarm with 1:1 sugar syrup but instead of taking the syrup down quickly, the bees are just getting stuck in the...