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I am currently in France in our campervan and yesterday we stayed at a lavender farm in Provence. It was a lovely spot and the owners don't charge anything - though they do have a little shop selling all things lavender which my wife visited before we left. The owner has over sixty colonies...

I have just put the last of my beekeeping equipment up for sale - a 50 kg stainless steel honey tank as sold by Swienty for over 200 euros. It has had honey in it up until a few weeks ago - which I have donated to a local bee farmer in exchange for a pot of heather honey - I think he got the...

Having had to give up beekeeping when we moved house I have finally got around to selling all my beekeeping books on eBay. I have started a thread in the For Sale section here with links to the eBay listings but I am not sure if it is going to be allowed! So, if you simply Google "eBay...

I am putting all my bee books up for sale on eBay. The books are: The Buzz About Bees: Biology of a Superorganism by Jurgen Tautz (Hardback, 2009): http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/311281983621?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Queen Bee: Biology, Rearing and Breeding by David...

Our house move seems to be proceeding speedily so I need to off-load the last of my bees quickly. All are over-wintered colonies with 2012 queens in Paradise Honey poly nucs and hives. I am offering these bees at a price more or less equal to the cost the hives and nucs would be on their own...

I am selling my Swienty 50 kg stainless steel honey tank on ebay, item number 310594514763 The tank has an airtight lid and is the ideal size for use with a 32 cm Swienty conical filter. The design has no internal lip at the gate valve so all the honey will drain from the tank. Dimensions...

I am selling my 15 frame Lega electric extractor on ebay at the moment, item number: 310594525639 This extractor will take Manley frames, which not all do. In normal use it take 15 super frames radially in all the normal sizes, including BS National Supers, Langstroth Shallow and Dadant...

I made a trip through parts of Brittany last week on my bike, including a short visit to the island of Ouessant, off the west coast. On the island I found an interesting programme to preserve the native black bee of the region. The local association doing this have a very good website (in...

The Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS) has just launched a new website. First impressions are it is a good resource for identifying these insects and there is also a free download available called "Bees in Britain". One loss is their old website had a good forum but all the posts...

For those who didn't see it yesterday the programme about African honey bees is on iPlayer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01f875l/Natural_World_20112012_Queen_of_the_Savannah/ The best honey bee video photography I have ever seen and apart from a few anthropomorphisms a very good...

I am planning to run some ethernet cabling around my house. The current system uses normal cables which came with plugs on the end to link it all together but I now want to run a cable to the other end of the house. My plan is to fit a wall socket at each end and then connect the two with a...

The heavens are putting on an interesting display at the moment. Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mercury have all lined up in a row. Two of these are easy to spot the others increasingly difficult. If you look into the west at the moment you can see Venus shining brightly. It is currently just to...

I have two small colonies overwintering in Mini-Plus hives. These take 6 frames, each about half the width of a conventional frame and about as deep as a super. PH showed pictures of a Lyson version recently which looked identical. One colony has 2 brood boxes and the other 3. The floors...

I have a former customer who wants me to send them half a dozen or so jars of honey to them in London. I don't want to go to the expense of buying loose fill but I have a large roll of bubble wrap. I am currently using 12 oz hexagonal jars, which are pretty strong, so I am planning just to...

I have just posted a few rather grumpy replies to current threads (probably because I am trying to make today an alchohol free day - as recommended in the news) so I really ought to try something a bit more cheerful for my 2000th. And before anyone suggests it once I work out how to do it I...

There were some interesting graphs in the latest edition of the Devon BKA magazine this month. It covered samples and measurements taken in 13 US states by the USDA and interestingly, despite the large number of hives transported there every year California had the lowest levels of varroa...