Digital 9 Infrastructure #DGI9 has started setting about the winding down of its trust: tinyurl.com/4uacj622

#Blackthorn is in flower around Hertford in Hertfordshire. So much earlier this year. Bees are busy flying in the sunshine today.

Herts Bee Supplies Paul Horton (Apidae Honey) Chris Manton BBKA Richard Noel There’s 22 species of Vespa world wide and non of them look like this other than nigrothorax subspecies of velutina

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Herts Bee Supplies Thats a good question.
Got me thinking about all the fruit growers, supermarkets have driven the price down so low the growers can't survive.

How many hundreds of thousands of fruit trees are going to be grubbed up as a result.

Talk about carbon neutral food, it grows on trees!

Where can we find a beesuit as cool as Jason Statham????? Pleasesend Mike one Mr. Ayers.

There even a mention of our beloved insects.

What??????? Can’t be true!!!

Heartbreaking that one building causes the death of over 1000 migratory birds in one 24 hour period. I saw a glimpse of this last year when I visited chicago in mid October. amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.thegua…

Finally a film worth watching!! 😂😂

❗️❗️ Gutted, just had a call from landowner saying that someone has cut down the fence in the middle of the night and stolen 15 colonies. Location is Garth just outside Llangollen in north wales. If anyone sees any of these hives for sale please let me know . After all the work!

Honey storage buckets need to be food grade. Sizes have often moved from imperial to metric.
Nearest equivalent sizes are...
30lb - 10 litres
15lb - 5 litres

Everyone does understand, your must place caught unknown swarms on new foundation so they use up all their stores that may well contain EFB bacteria? you don’t feed freshly caught swarms, you can feed in about 2 weeks once they’ve established 👍 BBKA does BBKA tell ppl?

Trouble with slugs and snails? Here is a simple, free remedy that might help reduce damage to seedlings 🥰

Costa del scorchio!

Spains wildlife will be suffering. Few European animals or plants can survive these kinds of temperatures.

Yes so far it's looking like a poor year. Nothing to get excited about. Overall Sales are slower than in past years. Possibly several factors: financial crisis and too many beekeepers producing their own honey and nucs. Better not to have too much stock.