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Could someone please try and identify this shrub for me? In flower now, covered in honey bees and bumbles Sweet smelling flowers, no odour from crushed leaves, about 4ft high maintained hedge, dense foliage.

Is anyone aware of a convenient, preferably UK source for a 2.25 inch (57mm) stainless steel honey valve? It needs to be a through fixing type rather than threaded into a spigot. I felt sure Th*rnes used to sell them but can't find them either in the printed catalogue or online.

Gets home this evening to find an incoming swarm has ignored the three 6 frame nucs filled with old brood frames, a national filled with old brood frames...and instead they have moved into an ashforth feeder that was almost covered by a crown board, a varroa floor insert and a brick. If they...

Do the poly nucs from P a y n e s need runners fitting and if so how is this done?

I'm looking for a book and can't seem to find it on any usual suppliers lists, mainly because I can't recall exactly what it is called or even if it was formally published. Its full of questions and answers on beekeeping, maybe 500, could be less. I'm reasonably sure 'answers' appears in the...

I need something for some publicity material for our local association. I could probably take one myself if the weather was a bit better but time is tight. I've tried on google and through various photo and beekeeping websites but while i can find many of the fully assembled items I can't find...

Somewhere, maybe on here or the other place there was I believe a few weeks back mention of positioning a brood frame clogged full of honey stores to within the brood area. This being done in order to encourage the bees to move brood frame stores out and thus expand the brood nest across more...

Did some extracting today from a couple of supers off one hive and there were two distinct types of honey, the light coloured and runny stuff that extracted easily and a few frames a bit darker with extremely gloopy honey that was pain to remove - most did come out (radial extractor) but some is...

Following on from http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=66851&postcount=49 If it is done purely as grid tie with zero interaction with Except the consumer has to finance both the 'green' wind turbine, the subsidies associated with that and the replacement of the conventionally...

How essential is the footprint pheromone to suppressing queen cell production? The reason I ask is that I've placed two badly drawn frames in a brood frame trap (a swarm of mine that was unavoidably housed on frames without any starter strips or foundation Now this is originally intended to...

Did an artificial swarm last week. Absolutely sure I left no queen cells with the queen. The hive on the original site with the original queen and all the fliers decided to 'swarm' this morning. Loads left the hive, circling round in a cloud, landing on the fence with a few of them on the...

https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/beebase/public/News/news.cfm#70 "NBU endorses organic acids"

Having recently bought a couple of miller type feeders I have just been informed that the seller considers them to be of merchantable quality. This is despite them being supplied with the following evidence: Paint lining the interior still smelling strongly after the feeder was left in a well...

Does anyone know of a supplier for a relatively rigid see through (polyester?) mesh suitable for astronaut type veils?