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Are these honeybees? If so they will require to be rehomed quickly . Contact me on welwynbees.com and the email will come through to me as committee member of the local honeybee assocciation.

Bumble bees calls I have received 64 phone calls and 12 emails regarding bees in the past 8 days. all but 4 turn out to be bumbles. I advise people to look at BBKA website, hit the link to" do you think you have a swarm" and ask them to scroll down the pictures of different bees. I advise much...

I have the same problem. So do my 2 bee buddies. We have all split our hives, then more queen cells appear. Only one hive has swarmed. All 3 of my original hives are strong I now have 4 hives and 2 nucs. My buddy now has 4 hives and 4 nucs. At least our training apiary is going to get restocked...

Please can anyone tell me how long does it take after a new queen has mated before she starts laying eggs. I can not seem to find the answer in my books. Many thanks

Mt blue car is slowly changing colour to yellow with all the "bee droppings".Why should this happen at this time of year? I would have expected this to happen in the spring as bees clean out the hives after the winter.

Have just gone down the garden to have a look at the hives and found all 3 hives busier than they have been all summer. Lots of bright yellow pollen. Any idea what they will be foraging on at this time of year?

I have now feed my hives 11 litres of sugar solution each in the last week. Is this enough? Or will the bees just stop taking it when they have sufficient?

My beebuddy wants to move a WBC hive about 4 metres. What is the best way to do this? Would moving the hive a metre every few days be the best method, or should he leave the time between each move for longer?Thanks.