It's not just honeybees who produce honey, out of 25,000 bees worldwide 7 produce honey, but honeybees are one of very few in the world...

Varroa destructor are external parasitic mites of the honeybee, for a long time it was thought they fed on the bee's blood but it was...

Volucella pellucens - Pellucid Fly commonly found in woodlands up and down the country between May and October. Whilst the adults make...

This goofy looking chap is a drone, drones are male bees, they don't have stingers like worker bees but they have these really big goofy...

Bombylius major - Dark edge Bee Fly. This is not a bee, just a bee mimic. Although the adults are great pollinators their larvae are...

(All Photos at the bottom of this post are in a gallery) Early January during the storms I had a phone call from a tree surgeon, he was...

Bees have been around for a very long time. Millions of years in fact and are referenced in some of the worlds most ancient texts. Is it...

I'd like to take a minute to talk about some of the work we do behind the scenes at Annie Bea’s to help save our pollinators, when I'm...

2 Nosema species have been identified in England and Wales, Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae (the Asian species). They are parasitic...

Honey bee brood basics: The ones that look like fine grains of rice in the cells are eggs, the C shaped ones with white liquid around...

What the hell is bee bread? No, it is not bread made out of bees nor bread shaped like bees 😂 Bee bread is used by the bees as a source...

How many eyes do honey bees have? A honey bee has 5 eyes, 2 large compound eyes on the side of its head and 3 small ocelli on the top of...