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Fab article. I enjoyed reading it and have visited your website and bookmarked it for future reference. Thanks. We aim to please! I have to be honest and say I hadn't worried about cost of equipment, moving heavy boxes etc because I'm still in the idyllic daydream stage of beekeeping! Many people d...

An old hive - so long as it is clean and disease-free - makes an excellent swarm-baiting device, as it already has the right smells. If you can, set it up in a fairly sunny spot (but preferably not in sun all day) and raise it off the ground - ideally by several feet. If bees are not already swarmin...

.....how does one "bait" a swarm though? Presumably if we do decide on getting the inhabited hive, OH would have to wear protective gear? And what should we cover the hive with whilst it is in transit by vehicle - can't help thinking that a car full of bees is a BAD idea!!! TIA Clara To m...

We're on the verge of getting our hive.....but i have a question (possibly a very dumb one!) about logistics - how does one move a hive full of bees? in our case we have not only 25km of winding mountain roads to negotiate, but also a 1km foot path (some of which is navigable by wheelbarrow, some p...

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Beekeepers wear white because the bees seem less liable to sting light colours than dark. You may discover this yourself if you wear your blue jeans when inspecting a hive!

The weather has had a detrimental effect, for sure - and I think this habit many beekeepers have of suppressing or culling drones is also bad news for queen mating.

Let's hope this season works out better than the last two!

As i have lots of bees visiting my garden any way would the neighbours even notice? Probably not - most people cannot tell a bee from a wasp, unless they are gardeners (and sometimes even then). However, if word got out (someone sees you dressed in a hat and veil) you will get the blame for any sti...

Because I'd rather have 'happy' bees and take far less honey, he thinks I'm an inadequate beekeeper. So who cares. I'm happy, my bees are happy (I think), and my fruit trees get polinated and drip with fruit. :flower: ww. Yours is the kind of beekeeping I want to encourage, for sure. Unfortunately,...

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Joining a local bee keepers association is a good idea - if you bear in mind that they will almost certainly all be using conventional equipment and methods, which *some* people believe are part of the problem...

Whether you approach it from the point of view of conservation, entomology, crop pollination or simply a love of honey, beekeeping is an engaging pursuit and a fascinating window on the natural world. So what does it take to become a beekeeper? The essentials are simple enough: some sort of hive, a ...

Thanks Looby - last time I saw you, you were wearing pyjamas! (or was that Andy Pandy...?)

Hello everybody - nice site! My mission is to encourage low-impact beekeeping as a way to restore the feral stock - and for people to have their own honey at minimum cost to them, the bees and the environment. I'm happy to see so many people here interested in growing your own food - and I hope some...