Leicester BEE Company

Happy Healthy Calm Bees With regard to Bees, its been a strange year, a very mild Spring, and a hot dry summer that's followed has no...

If you are looking for a good stocking filler presents this year there is no better choice than pure beeswax candles. I’ve made and sold...

If you own bee's there are two things you must do this year Wrap your hives with insulation, or use an insulation board and feed your...

Why would you do a shook swarm? To discourage swarming and disease The shook swarm method is used in beekeeping to switch a colony of...

“Paradox of our age, totally.” A quote from the Dali Lama, a wise old man, but he doesn’t keep bees ! The paradox is that we are richer...

After many years of beekeeping and the challenges and struggles that I’ve faced, I’m scaling down my operations. At my height I had ONE...

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Easter. You should have done your first annual inspection by now, and know what state...

Hi, It's the rock climbing apiarist here, as one of my friends and customers call me. After a very strange weather wise (cool and wet in...

Hello there , thankyou for reading this months Blog. Above you can see Mike, a trainee beekeeper at the apiary last week, helping me out....

May is synonymous with swarming. Swarming is the beekeepers nightmare. There is a lot of theory about managing and preventing swarming....

No, its not a female bee, nor the Queen, and this isn't its actual size, it's approximately 1mm in diameter. Varroa jacobsoni and the...

This week I searched three of my hives for a Queen who was to accompany 5 frames of brood that had been boxed up this week to be sold. In...

I read an article recently that claimed that there were too many bee’s in London to support the amount of forage available. London is...

As you are aware Ethical Bee Co will be selling over wintered bee’s with new good queens this year. The process is simple you call up to...

If you have been following the progress of the Ethical Bee company you will know that we have gone from strength to strength since the...

I have been asked to give training this winter, so for the advanced programme price of 14 hours the course will be £210 per person. Here...

A day in four pictures. I’m investing for 2022, so are you ready to become an enthusiastic beekeeper? Do you have the potential to do...

You’ve done everything right. There is activity around your hive. Your bee’s have survived the winter. As Spring approaches we have not...

It’s been a fortnight since my last hive inspections and the successful course I gave in June. During my last course this is what my...

Saturday 27th June proved to be a highly successful training day. Everyone enjoyed themselves, which is what bee keeping is all about. A...