So many of you have either tagged or sent me an article about “telling the bees”, so I'm going to tell you all about “telling the bees”....

Here are some flying speeds of some of our pollinators, these do vary between species and with 1,400 species of bats and 15,000-20,000...

Macroglossum stellatarum - Hummingbird hawk moth. These moths are one of our daytime flying moths, most often seen between May and...

Ok first of all I’m not getting at anyone and I’m not targeting anyone in this post, I’m just setting facts straight. I have seen and...

What do bees actually do with pollen? Pollen is a honey bee's main source of protein and fats, honeybees cant consume pollen raw. So to...

The life cycle of a honey bee from egg to emerge is very different between workers, drones and the queen, if the eggs are unfertilised it...

I remember when plastic grass first came along and thinking what the hell is this about?! I worked for a company that did home and garden...

I get asked so many things about struggling bees on the pavement, more often than not it's bumbles we see but it can be other bees as...

Thermography is a great piece of technology, often used by firefighters to navigate through smoke, the military or plumbers/builders to...

Living in a medieval town with one of the world's biggest medieval festivals, it's hard not to take an interest in the middle ages, so I...

It can get too hot in a hive for bees when we have very high temperatures in summer, the bees create their own air conditioning to stop...

Here's one we get asked a lot, whats the difference between our chopping board wax and our furniture polish? Our chopping board wax is...

One of the girls was chilling on the windscreen of the truck and thought id take the opportunity to talk about bee toes because yes they...

Do you know why bees swarm and what to do if you spot a swarm? Swarming is a response to overcrowding within a colony, when bees swarm...

By now you have probably seen or heard about no mow may, well here I go again upsetting people. No mow may was created in 2019 as a way...

Some beekeepers wear veils others don't, there is no right or wrong but there is common sense It doesn't make you any less of a...

I see so many posts from beekeepers talking about queen honeybees, saying they do or saying they don't and then a stream of confused...

With beekeeping and saving the bees becoming more and more popular, I can't stress this point enough! Beekeeping is amazing it teaches us...

There are many jobs for beekeepers to do through the winter, some of those being feeding the bees, bee treatments and deep cleaning...

So wax posts often cause messages to pop up, the biggest question being why take the wax if it takes the bees so long to make? When the...