“Beekeeping today is still as it has always been: the exploitation of colonies of a wild insect; the best beekeeping…
Following up on the structure and function of the mouthparts, this week’s blog features the marvellous mandibles. All the best…
Have you ever watched a honey bee with its glossa (tongue) stretched out collecting nectar from a flower and wondered…
February races forward with mixed days of bracing gales, heavy horizontal rain, flooding and freezing blizzard conditions. On the rare…
Book Review. Sue Remenyi has been keeping bees in England for 10 years. As in all specialist hobbies and crafts,…
Drone Inheritance Recap. We tackled the complicated story of drone genetics and inheritance last week, so let’s recap and move…
Part One: Understanding some cell biology and genetics. The drone is probably the least understood member of a honey bee…
August draws to an end and supers around the county groan with the weight of honey. Beekeepers return to the…
It seems at last that those of us in the north are being rewarded with a hot summer after enduring…
Andrew Card (Mac) has kindly contributed to this week’s blog with an account of the swarm control method that works…