Planning Ahead. What have I learned this season? I ask myself this at the end of every bee season and…
Despite a break in the nice weather and a couple of rainy days, it has been a very satisfying week. …
The Week’s Event: Equipment Show Bee-buddy Cynthia drove us into Inverness last Saturday to visit the first beekeeping equipment show…
Happy New Year Everyone. Smoker. If you’re like me you’re attached to your old smoker. Mine is twenty years old…
Does it matter where you place the next shallow super during a nectar flow? Above the first one or below…
Smoker Fuel. Has anyone else run out of their favourite smoker fuel? It has been a long season and I…
June Roundup. Welcome to all new Beelistener readers and subscribers, and thank you to everyone who contributed blogs, and generously…
Introduction. When I started beekeeping I didn’t have a mentor and when I first opened one of the UK equipment…
The easiest and most reliable way is to buy a colony, or smaller nucleus (above right), of honey bees from…
Have you ever been asked to remove a colony of honey bees from a building? I have; lots of times,…