Why it’s important to replace old comb One way in which beekeepers can keep their bees healthy is to ensure that…
Flipping Beehives!
It’s early spring and the sight of worker bees returning to the hive with full pollen baskets is a strong…
Beware of woodpeckers!
Woodpeckers (for some reason its only the Green Woodpeckers) can sometimes attack beehives to eat the bees and honeycomb. They…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 3
So we went to see the swarm again in their new home to see how they were getting on. We…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 2
In the last posting I described how we had removed a large and well established swarm of bees that had…
Rehousing a swarm of bees – Part 1…
Even the most diligent of beekeepers employing a strict inspection process to manage swarming gets it wrong occasionally… We have…
Keeping the wasps away…
The long, hard winter seems to have had a real impact on this years wasp numbers which seem to be…
Harvesting honey the easy way…
I’ve been a fan of polystyrene hives for some time, especially those sold by John Laidlaw at Modern Beekeeping. Unfortunately,…
Preparing feeders for the autumn
In preparation for post-harvest feeding, I bought a couple of feeders from Modern Beekeeping to go with my new hives.…