What colour of beeswax is best? Well, ultimately it depends upon your personal preference. The colour of the wax depends upon which part of the hive it came from and how much of the natural credentials you are prepared to sacrifice, if at all. Beswax is a wonderful odourless non-toxic substance naturally made by bees. […]

A  couple of years ago when the popular fantasy writer Neil Gaiman was on a Radio 4 comedy show and had to select and argue for a topic worthy of a place in a virtual museum, he chose perhaps the most important but arcane subject in entomology, “Bee Space”. If you love bees, without an

Why don’t bees hibernate in winter? Most people seem to expect to be told that bees hibernate through the cold of winter. The truth is actually far more interesting. Unlike Wasps and bumble bees, for example, who both die off in Autumn, (with exception of their queens who hibernate until spring), Honeybees have an altogether