100% Honeybee Colony Survival Over Winter
Gorgeous locally adapted honeybees Absolutely fantastic news, all our woodland colonies have survived the 2018 winter. They have emerged in Spring 2019, healthy and eager to go. Why the…
California is hit by a wave of BEE thefts
Farmers offer $10,000 reward to find raiders who used a fork-lift truck to steal nearly 200 hives Two beekeepers in California's Central Valley had nearly 100 hives stolen each The…
Great Day To Be Out In The Fresh Air
Crystal blue skies over a mature tree canopy, perfect. What a cool crisp gorgeous day it was. Left the laptop, tablet and phone behind to spend some time in…
Gem From The Bottom Of The internet – Fri 18th Jan 19
Why I love the internet It is: The largest repository of knowledge in history Instantly searchable A platform for instantaneous news (and fake news admittedly) A powerful educational tool A means…
Varroa Destructor: Bee parasites feed on fatty organs, not blood
© iStock/William Jones-Warner Honey bee colonies around the world are at risk from a variety of threats, ranging from pesticides to habitat loss, but bee parasites are the biggest threat…
BeekeeperTom’s Honey Gets a Royal Reception
John Holland-Kaye, Chief Executive Officer at Heathrow Airport (Left) presenting HRH The Earl of Wessex with BeekeeperTom's honey. BeekeeperTom's honey was presented to HRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO,…
2018 Honeybee Swarm Season
Swarm capture at Heathrow airport What are Swarming Honeybees? First and foremost, and as I ask students on my weekly honeybee experience course, what does it mean when bees are…
New pesticides ‘may have risks for bees’
Attempts to find a new generation of pesticides to replace neonicotinoids have been dealt a potential blow. Neonicotinoids are the most commonly used insecticide in the world, but had been…
Canada to phase out crop pesticides linked to bee deaths
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Canadian government said on Wednesday it would move to restrict the use of two types of crop pesticides that have been linked to deaths of…
Heathrow Terminal 5 Honey Day
Another fantastic day at Heathrow, on this occasion we were invited to bring honey and wax into terminal 5 to service T5 staff, honey requirements. What surprised us that the large candles…
Insecticides Could Be Making Bees Less Curious
Shutterstock Neonicotinoid insecticides, which are the most widely used insecticides in the world, have been linked with declining populations of bees. As pollinators, bees play a critical role in ecological networks,…
12 Interesting Facts About Bees
Bees are crucial to the agricultural industry. You may already know that one out of every three bites of food you take is because of their crop pollination, but there…
Save the native bees: Reframing the bee problem
Beginning around 2006, readers of the science news sections of mainstream publications were deluged with stories about the decline of honeybees. Since then, the headlines have been a constant lament:…
Country diary 1918: wonderful nest-building habits of the leafcutter bee
19 July 1918 Clean-edged oblongs and circles cut from leaves are used to build the cells of their nests Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella) cutting a disc from a Birch (Betula) leaf.…
This is why you definitely should NOT leave sugar water out for bees
That Facebook post you've all been sharing? Yeah, it's fake. A Facebook post which claiming to from Sir David Attenborough urging people to leave sugar water out for struggling bees…
