Honey Bees & Beekeeping

Propolis Ointment Accelerates Wound Healing Well known for it's anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties, propolis also stimulates wound healing, cell metabolism and circulation... Topical Treatment of Nonhealing Venous Leg Ulcer with Propolis Ointment Evid BasedComplement Alternat Med , 2013, Feb An investigation of effectiveness of t more... - 2013/05/24

Cefn Dyrys We inspected the two new hives at the apiary today and found hive1 to have bees on all frames and the start of 6-7 swarm queen cells. We provided more room for the bees by putting on a half brood box with alternate frames of drawn comb and frames with foundation. We then put a […] more... - 2013/05/22

INSPECTION At The Wern Ken and myself will be at the Wern on Bank Holiday Monday at Mid-day until about 13:30 and will be inspecting a new hive we moved there tonight and perhaps some swarm prevention measures on another of the hives. All are welcome to come down. more... - 2013/05/22

Grand Day Out 29th June 2013 The Bee Safari we had planned along with other events this year has been cancelled largely because members hives are in no condition for a prolonged open inspection that the Safari would entail. Instead we would like to have a day trip to the National Botanic Garden of Wales but we need to have a more... - 2013/05/21

First Swarm of the Year, North Philly I got an early birthday gift (the day before my bday) from the Queen Bee Goddess. She sent me a beautiful swarm. Thanks to Alison for reaching out to the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild about the swarm in her yard (and for taking video). And thanks to Russ for helping me catch the swarm. I was able to more... - 2013/05/20

Record Keeping I was asked about record keeping at the weekend on the beginners course so here we go :- Every beekeeper will develop their own system of keeping records from the back of a cereal packet (you know who you are) to excel spreadsheets. For a beginner in particular I cannot recommend highly enough the B more... - 2013/05/20