Swarm of bees in your garden?  Advice about beekeeping startups? Where to buy stuff? Other Counties beekeepers? Information about bees and bee produce.
If you find something good, share it here. 

A superb site for information on solitary bees and bumblebees has  been reported in the Bee Wasp and Ant Recording Society emails.
For wonderful pictures and a wealth of ideas on housing solitary bees in your garden go to http://www.wildbienen.de/wbschutz.htm  

It's in German but the pictures are so good you will still find it amazing.

  • A SWARM OF BEES NEEDS DEALING WITH
    We have a special page about that. Click HERE   for plenty of information.
  • BEGINNER ADVICE,
    click HERE   to go to our Beginners' Page
  • INTERNET VIDEO MINE
    Video clips on everything from queen rearing and donald duck's bees to opening honey in zero gravity. A real mine of over 100 videos at  http://mysite.orange.co.uk/BICKERSTAFFES  
  • BEEKEEPING EQUIPMENT SUPPLIES
    are for our members only. Lists and prices to be found in the MEMBERS PAGE , but you will need a password to access them.

  USEFUL ADDRESSES / PHONE NUMBERS / WEBSITES

  • If you are interested in queen rearing and would like to look at some rare old books on the subject, probably hard to find anywhere else, go to  
     www.bushfarms.com/beesoldbooks.htm
    it's free.
  • There are some very interesting videos you can watch on-line if you have a broad band connection. The German beekeepers have 24 of various lengths on the site iwf.de which is all about explaining science and interesting anyway.  Go to http://www.iwf.de/ and in the search box put BEEKEEPING, hit the little union jack flag in the top right and it will switch to English if your German vocabulary is a little rusty. Not all the commentaries are available in English but the pictures are brilliant.  
    (Northampton Beekeepers Association website which had a very full list of useful contacts and links is at present being re-constructed) 
  • MORE VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7C_pV9ig4c
    This one is about using powdered sugar to make mites drop out of a hive.
    Would you handle your bees in shorts like this?
  • In the same area of YouTube there are several more bee videos and wasp/hornet material, too.
    Some "never do it this way" swarm taking and wasp nest disposal.
    The idiots setting fire to wasps and  climbing trees with chainsaws mostly seem to have american accents!


  • GENERAL INFORMATION ON BEES
    The BBKA (British Beekeepers Association) website has lots of good information on bees for English beekeepers. Just search for BBKA.