Tales from a Top Bar – 2 Blog 27/06/202027/06/2020 20 June was a Big Day – it was the nearly 6 weeks since the swarm took up residence and I took a first very tentative peek at what was going on between the follower boards (the main hive area). A few bees had been hanging about outside the hive
BIBBA Webinar Presentations News 27/06/202027/06/2020 The Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association (BIBBA) is an association formed with the aim of conservation, restoration, study, selection and improvement of native or near-native honeybees of the British Isles. As an organisation, BIBBA offers: • Encouragement to form breeding groups to improve and propagate native and near native
Moving Bumble Bees – an experience not to be forgotten! Blog 17/06/202017/06/2020 A friend called me about a nest of bumble bees in an outbuilding he was about to renovate. He did not want to kill the bees if it could be avoided. In my ignorance I volunteered to come and have a look. The bees were going in and out of
Tales from a Top Bar Blog 08/06/202008/06/2020 I must begin all this with a disclaimer. I’m a complete novice at beekeeping and top-bar hives! So while I’m learning a lot on-line and through dealing with the bees, I am most certainly not an expert. I opted for a top bar hive because I have developed
