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Attempted my first artificial swarm today and as I feared I couldn't find the queen. The whole 14x12 brood box was full to the brim with bees and I couldn't find HRH despite looking through each frame several times. As I had several swarm cells with eggs and larvae as well as one capped...

I've just watched this program on BBC2 and it's got me feeling all militant about getting the local council to be a bit more bee friendly in their planting. For those that missed it the program pointed out that the vast majority of modern bedding plants are of no use at all to bees and other...

Hello all knowing and experienced beeks. I have one small wbc colony (which is on 14x12s) that hopefully will make it through to the spring and one empty top bar hive which I would like to install some bees. To save money i would ideally like to split the wbc. I have heard of the chop and...

Is this madness? Mike

Hello everyone. How much time am I likely to spend beekeeping weekly if I have one or two hives? I'm a complete novice with no beekeeping experience whatsoever but have recently been thinking of setting up one or two hives. I've been reading lots about the subject and am planning on going on...