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Revolutionary FLOWhive that lets you harvest honey without disturbing the bees
A revolutionary new beehive called the FLOWhive is launching this week on Kickstarter. It apparently harvests honey in a very innovative way and is set to revolutionise beekeeping and honey harvesting...
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Mark Thompson’s Halo
“For many years Mark Thompson, a beekeeper local to my area, had the bizarre urge to build a Live-In Hive – an active bee home you could visit by inserting your head into it. He was working in a yard...
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Let the midday bees strike up their lazy hum!
The swarming season is drawing to an end. We caught one final swarm this week – making it a total of five. Two of the swarms decided to move on within days of being put into their new home. I have...
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The Bee Takes a Middle Course
A friend sent me a link to a beautifully illustrated book with a poem from Francis Bacon. Click on the illustration and it will take you to a page where you can download the book.
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The Song of the Swarm
“Perhaps the one stage in bee-keeping that requires the least protection and minimum of courage is “swarm catching” – that is, taking natural swarms after they have alighted in a cluster on a bush or...
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Feed on every kind of fruit….
‘Your Lord inspired the bee, saying: “Make your homes in the mountains, in the trees, and in the hives which men shall build for you. Feed on every kind of fruit, and follow the trodden paths of your...
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Samson’s Riddle
Samson’s riddle is a riddle that appears in the biblical narrative about Samson. Samson posed the riddle to his thirty Philistine guests, in these words: “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the...
View ArticleWhat are the collective nouns for bees and drones?
There are many collective nouns for a group of bees: a bike of bees a charm of bees a cluster of bees an erst of bees a game of bees a grist of bees a hive of bees a hum of bees a nest of bees a rabble...
View ArticleLecture to the London Dowsers: Dowsing in Service to the Honeybee
On 28th September, I gave a talk to the London Dowsers. It was the first opportunity to present the results of my efforts to replicate the amazing work done by John Harding who first introduced himself...
View ArticleHoneybees can add and subtract!
Many animals understand numbers at a basic level for use in essential tasks such as foraging, shoaling, and resource management. However, complex arithmetic operations, such as addition and...
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