Honeybees are important pollinators of many flowering plants. The best time to start a new hive is in the spring. When you’re ready to start beekeeping, you can purchase the bees by mail order. These ...

The comb attached to a top bar must be handled carefully so it doesn’t break away from the bar. These top bar beehive plans are simpler, less expensive and give bees a greater degree of freedom than ...

Woodcarver Matt Somerville believes harvesting honey should be more natural so he has devised a new kind of hive aimed at benefitting the health and sustainability of bee colonies. MIRIAM DARLINGTON ...

To think of beekeeping is usually to think of big white suits, lots of smoke, threatening swarms… and pots of delicious homemade honey. But the drastic decline in bee populations, linked to colony ...

The honeybee is becoming an endangered species, with the finger of blame pointing in multiple directions. Wild honeybees are nearly extinct in the UK and from 1985-2005 there was a 53 per cent decline ...

Most stingless bee keepers are not after honey. Rather, they enjoy the sense of conserving a native species whose original habitat is being increasingly cleared and developed. In return, the bees ...

It’s midsummer in the village of Tangley, Hampshire, and the warm air is thrumming with the sound of busy bees. It’s music to the ears of Matt Somerville, a beekeeper and natural log hive builder ...