Surrey Natural Beekeeping

21/05/2026

May is a special month for UK bumblebees – the Big Eight are joined by some of our rare and less common species 💛

👑 This month, some of these rare and less common queens will emerge from hibernation. Already active queens will produce their first daughters – the workers 💼

🎱 For the Big Eight, some queens will produce their first workers while others will welcome new males 🚹

What bumblebees have you spotted recently? How many have you seen so far this year?

21/05/2026

Do your bees stray and pinch nectar from someone else's flowers ....

Medieval Irish bees had a legal status because they were classified as domestic livestock.

20/05/2026

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news from Maple Farm! 🌿🦎

Today, we received confirmation from the Newt Conservation Partnership that our rewilding project has been approved to create two large ponds, providing vital habitat for great crested newts — a protected species.

Over the past two years, we’ve been carefully monitoring trial pits to assess their viability, so this is a fantastic milestone for the project. We’re hopeful that plans will progress over the coming weeks and that digging can begin soon!

We’re incredibly proud that the work being carried out at Maple Farm is helping to support and protect local wildlife, creating a thriving space for nature to flourish. 💚

20/05/2026

If we look after them they look after the planet

This year’s theme “Bee Together for People and the Planet - A partnership that sustains us all” aims to stress the strong and long-lasting partnership betwee...

10/05/2026

We had a great afternoon at RHS Wisley Gardens looking at the rewinding projects and bees. Photos show a couple of inhabited log hives, a wild colony in a chimney and a tree sculpture of honeybees and comb.
Thanks to Mark Tuson for taking us around the gardens and the very informative day.

23/04/2026

In this video, created by two film makers who recently visited Maple Farm, Jack (one of the Directors from our rewilding partners, Youngwilders, talks openly about the problems facing nature in he UK, and how their organisation is encouraging young people to learn and become directly involved in nat

23/04/2026

Something many of us will have discovered this spring

St Mabyn, Cornwall: Many apiarists opened their hives this spring to find hardly any sign of life. In Richard’s case, he found nothing at all

07/04/2026

"glyphosate is one of the world's most-applied herbicides, the impact of the chemical on the bees could be greater than previously realized."

Cultivating flowering plants for pollinator gardens, commercial farms, or home landscapes often relies on the use of herbicides to manage unwanted weeds. Honeybees are attracted to these locations and play a critical role in their success. So what happens when foraging bees pick up a dose of weedkil...

26/03/2026

Tune in to BBC4 tonight at 8pm… My Garden of a Thousand Bees - not to be missed 🙂

22/02/2026

Hi there, we are running another bee hive making workshop on 11th April from 10am. Details of the workshop are in the below
This is a hive for free-living wild honey bees 🐝

Please feel free to share it with anyone who you feel may be interested.❤️

Join us on Saturday 11th April to learn how to make a bee hive to put up on a building or on a tree. This is a wonderful eco project!