by Victor Diaz Test | Apr 2024 | Stories
Beginners in the apiary
– April Written by Kirsty Stainton First published April 2024 It’s never too early to think about swarming. By April, there should be lots of new bees coming through. The strongest colonies will be heaving with bees and the swarming instinct...
by Victor Diaz Test | Feb 2024 | Stories
Insulation, insulation, insulation Written by Dr Derek Mitchell First published February 2024 In a career that has taken him from mechanical engineering to space craft software, Derek Mitchell returned to earth when his wife took up beekeeping. Looking at the hives...
by Victor Diaz Test | Jan 2024 | Stories
Eight nifty mechanical
signals produced by worker honey bees Written by Professor Thomas D Seeley First published January 2024 A review of the forms and functions of the eight mechanical (non-chemical) signals that worker honey bees produce and that human beings have...
by Victor Diaz Test | Oct 2023 | Stories
Ask the mentors Clare Densley and Martin Hann from Buckfast answer your beekeeping queries. First published October 2023 Q: Last spring my colony swarmed. I collected it and put it into a new hive. About two weeks later another swarm came out which I caught and put it...
by Victor Diaz Test | Sep 2023 | Stories
Techniques in the apiary: Varroa-monitoring methods Written by Richard Rickitt, Co-editor First published September 2023 In July, 12 beekeepers attended the Advanced Beekeeping Course run by the National Diploma of Beekeeping (NDB) at Pershore College in...
by Victor Diaz Test | Aug 2023 | Stories
Beekeeping shorts: Frame turning Written by Ken Basterfield, NDB First published August 2023 How much beekeeping practice is well-intentioned nonsense? The sort of thing that is earnestly passed on to beginners by a tutor, who learned it from their tutor, who learned...
