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Last week, I commented on the idleness of drones sitting in a bunch doing nothing in the middle of the brood […]

Last week, The Guardian newspaper ran a story Government bee scientist behind controversial study joins pesticide firm in which it reported […]

I never realised that drones could be quite so idle! Every day, in the middle of a frame in the […]

The summer nectar flow is continuing, brace comb has been appearing all over the observation hive and the glass has […]

I must apologise on behalf of my observation hive bees for this very murky picture, but it does tell a […]

I should be more patient! Last week I thought the queen in the observation hive had failed to mate properly […]

The nectar flow is still strong in southern England at the moment, so there may be a chance for this […]

I was sitting having a coffee in the garden yesterday morning when I noticed a scuffle on the landing board […]

We’ve just heard back from Serena Watts who chaperoned the British team at the 4th International Meeting of Young Beekeepers […]

The queen in the observation hive does not appear to have mated properly and is laying only drones. I’ve never […]

Lifting the last empty super from a stack to put on a hive, I came across this wasp nest built […]

The goings-on in the observation hive are a little confusing to me. First of all, the queen seems to have […]