The British Bee Company | Bee-Blog

August at the heather moor

Plus, the perils of hybridisation illustrate the importance of Queen rearing With families on their summer holidays, and many places in...

Queen Rearing on Colonsay Island with Andrew Abrahams

Our journey to the inner Hebrides to visit a living legend of the beekeeping world... Andrew at work, tending his bees. He didn't don a...

HARDY BEES

I am hopeful that this prolonged cold spell is coming to an end. It has now been chilly here in NE Wales for March,most of April and the...

SECOND HIVE INSPECTIONS

Choosing a bright spell in the middle of the day,when it is warm enough for shirt sleeves,I have been opening up the hives one by one and...

THIRSTY BEES AND THE FIRST QUEEN CELLS

Thankfully it was bright enough on Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday of this week to allow a quick but thorough inspection of each hive. I...