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20/09/2026

Made me giggle…

29/08/2026

18/08/2026

17/08/2026

Now the Honey is off and the temperature has finally dipped under 30 it is time to treat your bees, to reduce mite loads ahead of your Queens laying the long-lived winter bees. While most of the treatments on the approved treatment list compiled by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate require honey supers to be off when you treat, several have withdrawal periods of zero, so the (organic) treatment leaves no residue in honey. This means you can add back the space once you have treated them.
The most important things are to follow the instructions (yes, really!) and if you think your bees are varroa resistant, perhaps test the drop levels to be sure, before assuming.
Here is a link to the National Bee Unit Advisory Leaflet on Varroa

09/08/2026

A great summer bbq at the teaching apiary with over 50 members and friends/family. Great food and company! Same again next year?

18/07/2026

Good evening all. This is a very important and timely infographic we have designed describing EFB and how we can all be responsible bee keepers. Please feel free to share with your bee friends…

13/07/2026

Wasps - pesky predators now their queens have laid up next year's Queens and the search for protein is beginning to be replaced by a sugar lust.
I do deploy the odd wasp trap (in the garden, not near my bees) - a plastic bottle is ideal, cut in half with the top half inverted (top off!) and the reservoir in the bottom needs a sugar (not sugar free) solution like cola or lemonade, jam or syrup, with a bit of mince (the corner off a burger before it is going on the BBQ is ideal) - the meat deters bees from getting involved.

What is your wasp trap solution (or don't you)?

11/07/2026

If you keep bees in and around Ipswich and East Suffolk, it is well worth considering reducing the entrance on your hives now to make it harder for wasps to steal honey - they are well and truly present now. This applies especially to any smaller colonies.
There are all sorts of entrance reducers on the market but you could put a used nitrile glove across part of the entrance and tuck it in, or use a piece of foam with a bit of duct tape to stop the bees pushing it out again, or even just a bit of duct tape with a folder bit on the sticky side to stop the bees sticking to it (like the gauze pad on a plaster). The National Bee Unit publish a handy leaflet that (you can download if you want to) - it has some other ideas for wasp entrances too, at this link

28/06/2026

If you would like to buy local honey a good tip is to put your postcode into the swarm-catcher's map and the nearest beekeeper's phone number will come up. They are unlikely to mind if you contact them to ask if they sell honey, or to pass on details of another beekeeper if they don't 😋

04/06/2026

A few messages about Swarms - if you need one collecting, use this link, https://www.suffolkbeekeepers.co.uk/swarm put in the postcode and the details of the nearest beekeeper who can help you will pop up. If you take a photo and send it that helps save time too.
Two things to be aware of; beekeepers don't usually remove bumblebee nests - but they will be gone on their own at the end of July/August. If a colony of honey bees has been established in a building for some time, it is not a swarm collection. There are a few specialist beekeepers that can remove bees that have become established from buildings, but not your average beekeeper.
We hope this helps

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