ETHICAL BEE Company

It’s been a lazy summer at the apiary and 40 degree heat is hot! I felt sorry for all the bee’s working overtime to keep their hive...

No, its not a female bee, nor the Queen, and this isn't its actual size, it's approximately 1mm in diameter. Varroa jacobsoni and the...

The UK is the biggest importer of honey in Europe. 47,000 tons of honey a year comes from China. Chinese honey contains chloramphenicol...

This week I searched three of my hives for a Queen who was to accompany 5 frames of brood that had been boxed up this week to be sold. In...

I read an article recently that claimed that there were too many bee’s in London to support the amount of forage available. London is...

As you are aware Ethical Bee Co will be selling over wintered bee’s with new good queens this year. The process is simple you call up to...

If you have been following the progress of the Ethical Bee company you will know that we have gone from strength to strength since the...

I have been asked to give training this winter, so for the advanced programme price of 14 hours the course will be £210 per person. Here...

A day in four pictures. I’m investing for 2022, so are you ready to become an enthusiastic beekeeper? Do you have the potential to do...

Its been a strange summer of heat waves and unpredictable weather. Desite this , my Queens have passed the peak of bee production in June...

It was the wettest May on record and our bee's did not like the weather. It meant they could not forage and had to be fed throughout the...

You’ve done everything right. There is activity around your hive. Your bee’s have survived the winter. As Spring approaches we have not...

It’s been a fortnight since my last hive inspections and the successful course I gave in June. During my last course this is what my...

Saturday 27th June proved to be a highly successful training day. Everyone enjoyed themselves, which is what bee keeping is all about. A...

Today was a day for making observations. This is early in the season, but sadly something is not right, and if people have not woken up...

You ought to be excited. Without bee's there would be no life on earth, no crops, no flowers, nothing to eat. Today Spring arrived.........

A review of the crash course in Bee keeping Last Saturday the 14th September, the weather was perfect for bee keeping and delivering a...

Filtering the honey

The weather this week has been awful, so the bee's have not had a chance to collect any pollen. Today was a lovely sunny day, so I...