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A (11)
- A Good Bee Book
- Acarine Disease
- Acetic Acid Fumigation
- American Foulbrood (AFB)
- Ancistrocerus nigrocornis?
- Apiguard Eke
- Arnia Remote Hive Monitoring Data
- Arnia Remote Hive Monitors – Installing
- Arnia Remote Hive Monitors – Set Up
- Artificial Swarm
- Ashford Honey Festival
B (57)
- Bee Trees – Ivy (Hedera helix)
- Beekeeping Lifestyle for Sale
- Bee Basics – Apiary Site
- Bee Basics – Metamorphosis
- Bee Basics – Mid-Winter Feeding
- Bee Basics – Pheromones
- Bee Basics – the Beespace
- Bee Basics – the Colony
- Bee Basics – the Drone
- Bee Basics – the Queen Bee
- Bee Basics – the Worker Bee
- Bee Basics – Which Beehive?
- Bee Basics – Which Feeder?
- Bee Flora
- Bee Flower – Coltsfoot
- Bee Flowers – April
- Bee flowers – Berberis
- Bee Flowers – February
- Bee Flowers – July
- Bee Flowers – June
- Bee Flowers – March
- Bee Flowers – May
- Bee Flowers – November
- Bee Flowers – October
- Bee Flowers – September
- Bee Flowers August
- Bee Skep Making Course 2016
- Bee Stings
- Bee Trees – Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
- Bee Trees – Hazel (Corylus avellana)
- Bee Trees – Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
- Bee Trees – Lime (Tilia spp)
- Bee Trees – Poplar (Populus spp)
- Bee Trees – Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)
- Bee Trees – Willow (Salix spp)
- Bee Viruses
- Beekeepers Smoker Fuel
- Beekeeping Equipment
- Beekeeping for Beginners Course 2014
- Beekeeping for Beginners Course 2015
- Beekeeping for Beginners Course 2016
- Beekeeping without Smoke
- Bees and Honey with a Scale Hive
- Bees and Mahonia
- Bees on the Hellebore
- Beeswax Facts
- Beeswax Fillings
- Beeswax Furniture Polish Recipe
- Beeswax Mountain – Candle Making
- Beeswax Soap Recipe
- Beeswax Wraps made Simple
- Blackcurrant Wine Update
- Blooming Gorse
- Book Review: ‘Breeding Techniques and Selection for Breeding of the Honeybee’ by Friedrich Ruttner
- Book Review: ‘Swarming: its Prevention and Control’ by L.E.Snelgrove
- Buckfast Bee
- Burns Night Special
C (12)
- Composition of Honey
- Carniolan Bee
- Chalkbrood and the Banana Thing
- Chalkbrood Banana Results
- Chilli Honey Recipe
- Christmas – Bees and Wintering
- Christmas Catkins
- Cloake Board Method of Queen Rearing
- Common Wasp
- Cooking with Honey
- Crocus Bees
- Cult of Ignorance
D (6)
- Dandelions
- December Bees
- Diseases of Bees – an Overview
- Do Bees need Insulation?
- Doppelganger
- Dysentery
E (3)
F (6)
- Fighting Queen Bees
- First Snowdrops
- First Swallow?
- First Swarm
- Frame Assembly – Bad
- Frame Assembly – Good
G (3)
H (52)
- How to Find Drone Congregation Areas
- How to set up a catcher hive
- How to set up an Apidea
- Hair today…
- Hawthorn Honey
- Heather Ecosystem
- Heathering
- Hellebore Pollen
- Hello world!
- Henry
- Heritage Bill?
- Hibernating Queen Wasps
- Himalayan Balsam or Impatiens glandulifera
- Hiving a Swarm
- Honey and Blackcurrant Wine Recipe
- Honey Bee Colony Appraisal
- Honey Bee Colony Assessment
- Honey Bees and Climate Change
- Honey Cake Recipe
- Honey Ginger Biscuits Recipe
- Honey Labelling Regulations
- Honey Marmalade Recipe
- Honey Powered Sourdough Recipe
- Honey Toasted Muesli/Granola Recipe
- Honey with Gin Innit
- Honey, Healing and Hayfever
- Honey, Tahini and Date Biscuits
- Hooper’s Five Questions
- How do I know if my hive is queenless?
- How much does it cost to start beekeeping?
- How to Breed Varroa Resistant Bees
- How to Feed a Winter Apidea
- How to find the Queen
- How to get Section Honey
- How to hive a swarm: the Easy Way
- How to hive a swarm: the No Frills Way
- How to hive a swarm: the Pretty Way
- How to improve your bees
- How to Introduce a queen bee to an Apidea
- How to make mead from beeswax cappings
- How to make Soft-Set or ‘Creamed’ Honey
- How to overwinter an Apidea
- How to Prepare Bees for the Heather
- How to Prepare Beeswax for Show
- How to set up your Jenter Kit
- How to start a Powerpoint Slide-show
- How to Stop Robbing Bees or Wasps
- How to take a crop of heather honey
- How to take a crop of Ivy honey
- How to unite bees – the Newspaper Method
- How to unite bees – the Third Box Principle
- How to use your Jenter Kit
I (12)
- Importance of Pollen
- In Praise of Ravens
- Ireland Pollinator Plan 2015-2020
- Irish Beekeepers Protest
- Irish Hedgerow Destruction
- Irish Native Bee
- Irish Native Queen & Nuc Suppliers
- Irish Queen Bees for Sale
- Irish Wasps
- Isle of Man Horse Power
- Italian Bee
- Ivy Honey
K (1)
L (2)
M (10)
- Make your own Bee Skep
- Make Your Own Scale Hive
- Make your own Snelgrove Board
- MAQStrips – Do they work?
- Marmalade Oranges
- Michaelmas – Bees and Wintering
- Mid-winter Varroa Treatment – December 2013
- Moisture Content of Honey
- Murphy
- Murphy’s Last Stick
N (7)
- Native Bees
- Native Irish Honey Bee Book
- Native Irish Queen Bees
- NIHBS 2019 Conference
- Nosema Disease
- November Ivy
- Noxious Weeds!
O (3)
P (9)
- Perfect Supersedure
- Piping Queen Bees
- Pollen and Bees
- Pollination
- Pollination and Honey Bees
- Poplar leaf rust spores?
- Porter Bee Escape
- Propolis
- Purple Moor Grass
Q (9)
- Queen Bee Introduction – Basics
- Queen Bee Introduction – Postal Cage
- Queen Marking Colours
- Queen Rearing – How to Graft
- Queen Rearing Timeline
- Queen Rearing Timetable for Cloake Board & Jenter Kit
- Queen Substance
- Quick queen bee introduction – Paper Bag Method
- Quick queen-bee introduction – Matchbox Method
R (3)
S (23)
- Scottish Flummery Recipe
- Shook Swarm
- SICAMM 2020 Conference
- Skep Beekeeping
- Skep binding – how to join canes
- Skep History
- Skep Making Course 2019
- Skeps and Skep Beekeeping
- Sloe Wine Recipe
- Small Hive Beetle (SHB) Control
- Small Hive Beetle (SHB) Life Cycle
- Small Hive Beetle (SHB) Prevention
- Snowdrops
- Spiced Honey Liqueur
- Spring Inspections
- Spring Pollen Substitute
- St Brigid of Kildare
- Storm Damage
- Summer Oxalic Acid Varroa Treatment
- Swarm control – Demaree
- Swarm Prevention
- Swarming and How to Control it
- Sycamore Pollen
T (10)
- The Beekeeper’s Cat
- The Sun Hive & How to Make One
- Things to do in February
- Things to do in November
- Things to do in October
- Thought for the Day
- Thought for the Day
- Thought for the Day
- Thought for the Day
- Thunder and Lightning
U (1)
V (3)
W (16)
- Wax-moth Hell
- We need to talk about ragwort
- Weather Warming Warning
- What is honey anyway?
- What to do with queenless Apideas
- Where to buy bees?
- Which Frames?
- White Eyed Drone
- White Eyed Worker Bee
- Wild Garlic
- Willow Pollen
- Winter Feeding of Bees
- Winter Losses
- Winter Oxalic Acid Varroa Treatment
- Winter Reading
- Wintering Bees
What a fantastic site, thank you
Bernie
Great site & blog Jane.
Thank you!
Thank you for taking the trouble to create this excellent resource for beekeepers
Thank you too!