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7 November 2013 saw the inaugural flight of the Air Bee School and what a success it turned out to bee visiting schoolchildren in the remote and beautiful area surrounding Lake Vegoritida in northwest Greece.

Honeybees sting like a bee, bite like a snake, but did you know they can cook — hornets to death.
But we don’t think there are enough cooks to cope with the threat of the Asian Hornet!

Just 60 hours before take off for Alex’s first air bee-lesson for remote schools in Greece. Here’s a picture of how the airplane will look like on the 7th of November. There’s still time to take part.

Here’s the slide that caused a sharp intake of breath and some reflex questions during Dr Max Watkins’ talk at the National Honey Show in Weybridge, Surrey, England last Friday.

For just €5, you can get your name on a picture of a bee on the wing of Alex’s ultralight plane as it transports a flying beehive around schools to educate young people about the value of honeybees.

Last night near Vita’s HQ, BCOT kindly provided the venue for a pre-release screening of More Than Honey for local beekeepers.

On a dark wet Friday afternoon after school, the cherry-picker arrived so that we could at last rescue the so-called swarm from the birch tree in the schoolyard.

The Vita Photo Competition 2013 closing date is looming — 20 October — and photos are still coming in. Here’s a very science fiction type shot …

After all the talk about this being a bad year for varroa in northern Europe, I received quite a shock […]

I’ve put a Facebook photo album up of some of the sights that have caught our eyes at Apimondia this […]

Since Beijing 1993, even before Vita was founded, the biennial beat of Apimondia has provided the rhythm to our business […]

My local school reported a fair-sized swarm high up in a birch tree on Friday. That seemed a bit odd […]