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For anyone building their own hives there is brand new aluminium sheet which works out at £2-£3 /hive available from a coach building company in Banbridge Northern Ireland. I have no connection to the company but thought some members might be interested...

I think this is from the USA in the 1950's, we had never heard of it before and thought it might be of interest to some. Not sure if it was a natural occurrence or there was some "help" given to the bees. Believer or sceptic?? Alan...

Hi The weather here has still been very mixed and has not been suitable to do a full inspection. On what good days there have been the bees are flying well and bringing in pollen; we have been feeding fondant for the last 2 months which the bees have been taking well (carry out container of...

As with others the bees are going mad on the ivy and are loaded with pollen; despite having lots of trees to choose from they seem to have zeroed in on one about 2 fields away; they obviously know why. But while the bees are bringing in the harvest my search for sloes today for the yearly sloe...

Hi On the 5th July one of our hives swarmed; not sure why as they seemed to have plenty of room with 2 supers on and only 1 half used; we hadnt been into the hive for nearly 3 weeks due to the weather. 4 days after the swarm we went in and destroyed all queen cells except 1 however very possible...