Live Beekeeping

How to determine if there is a queen bee in the hive without opening it!

The first pollen from willows!

Spring at the apiary.

Honey harvesting 2025! To support honey apiculture buy honey from local beekeepers 🍯

@GwenynGruffydd Everything is so new and clean. Wonderful! 👍

Honey extracting 2025 had started!! It’s a big day. We’re in the new honey house with all new equipment! Been years in the making. Building as we could afford it. The build has been on stop multiple times and the kit has been in storage for well over a year! But we are finally there! 😊🐝 #beekeeping #honey #localhoney #welshhoney #britishhoney @CarharttEurope #carhartt #carharttworkwear #carhartteurope

This season, 10 bee colonies produced 350 kg of honey. On average, one colony produced 35 kg in stationary conditions. Share your productivity?

Honey harvesting! Full Dadan frame of honeycomb 🍯 Bees make job 👍

Full frame of honey🍯

I picked some white currants. Very useful. Contains vitamins (C, E, K, P, group B), gamma-linolenic acid, carotenes, pectins, polyphenols, anthocyanins, flavonoids, antioxidants, minerals, tannins, essential oils.

Happy Bee Day! 20 May 2025 Let them buzzz...

The blackthorn is blooming. Bees are buzzing and collecting pollen.

Does anyone have any real experience of how dangerous the Asian Hornet is in Europe? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Peacock butterfly wakes up after winter and tries to fly for the first time.

Pussy willow is one of the first pollen sources for bees in spring.🌞 Its pollen is used to feed the brood and increase the colony.

@britishbee Тhis is a problem for UK and the whole EU. A lot of cheap honey is imported. But it is already packed in jars in the UK. So how do packers admit that they are packing fake honey? Maybe because they want to import cheap honey for 2 euros per 1 kg and sell it for 10-15?

Britain’s leading charity representing hobbyist beekeepers has responded to new evidence raising significant questions about the composition of blended honey samples imported to the UK and sold at supermarket retailers. thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/1…

Benefits of propolis!

Why honeycombs become darker?