Scottish Beekeepers - Interactive

On Saturday I spent a fascinating afternoon at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of West Sussex Just outside Brighton.

As the traffic was a lot better than the weather I managed to get there early and had plenty of time to have a mosey around the labs and meet some of the great and the good of UK apicultural ...

When Murray asked me to come out and see the disease in July 2009 to spread the word, EFB was new to me, him and some of ...

In a brand new telling including the usual taking figures out of context, that weird study done in India last year is back in the news... ...

Would it help your garden to gather nitrogen-rich products from flowers over an area of many square miles then spray them ...

20c in Belfast yesterday.
We took the dog for a dander over to the new apiary site at Minnowburn, a National Trust ...

The Food Standards Agency has issued a warning about the risks of infant botulism from feeding babies honey ...

This is a shameless rip off of a similar post on a similar forum but now I'm entering year 2 and hence now know everything there is to know about beekeeping I thought it might be interesting and hopefully useful.

1) Don't buy anything until you've done a couple of inspections at your local association or with another beekeeper.

The first time we opened up a hive I will admit, in my best Asterix, to thinking "@*!%%^". I got ...

The BBC have reported the confirmation of Nosema ceranae in Northern Ireland.




The disease ...