Hi Folks, Appreciate some of you will be going a tad stir crazy. Well! For the beeks out there attached is the March 2020 edition of BIBBA Monthly BM. Enjoy the read and stay safe everyone. Enjoy ..read more

Mid February’s springlike warmth and clear skies heralded a lot of activity in the beehives. This was an opportunity to get up close and personal, to see what the honeybees were up to a Heathrow.   One of BeekeeperTom’s hard-working honeybees returning with pollen baskets full.   As you can see there is plenty of activity as pictured above and below at one of the beehive colonies at one of Heathrow Airport ‘s biodiversity sites. It is imperative to check on your colonies when they begin to fly late winter early spring, given Heathrow has it’s own micro-climate which results in it being a f ..read more

New project calls on ‘citizen scientists’ to help understand the lives and habits of the capital’s insects Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images   Hundreds of #bees in London have been fitted with “licence plates” as part of a project to uncover the secret lives of the insects. The London Pollinator Project aims to understand which parts of the capital are #bee hotspots and what types of flowers the creatures like best. Bee-spotters are being asked to take pictures of the 500 tagged insects, with prizes given to the best photos to sweeten the deal. “The fact that the bees have individual ‘licence pla ..read more

Russia should be more than alarmed! According to the BBC, their beekeeping industry derives their honey from bumblebees. Good luck with that! Media reporting inaccuracies, this occurs daily with news reporting. The articles purport to be factual, written as authority pieces. We the consumers take the information, run with it, and form opinions based upon lazy, flawed and distorted articles. So, let me get a few things off my chest here! I despise lazy reporting. ALL pictures used in this article are bumblebees! Dear BBC, Beekeepers do not keep ‘BUMBLEBEES’ (Yes in capitals and bold s ..read more

Mid February’s springlike warmth and clear skies heralded a lot of activity in the beehives. This was an opportunity to get up close and personal, to see what the honeybees were up to a Heathrow.   One of BeekeeperTom’s hard-working honeybees returning with pollen baskets full.   As you can see there is plenty of activity as pictured above and below at one of the beehive colonies at one of Heathrow Airport ‘s biodiversity sites. It is imperative to check on your colonies when they begin to fly late winter early spring, given Heathrow has it’s own micro-climate which results in it being a f ..read more

Russia should be more than alarmed! According to the BBC, their beekeeping industry derives their honey from bumblebees. Good luck with that! Media reporting inaccuracies, this occurs daily with news reporting. The articles purport to be factual, written as authority pieces. We the consumers take the information, run with it, and form opinions based upon lazy, flawed and distorted articles. So, let me get a few things off my chest here! I despise lazy reporting. ALL pictures used in this article are bumblebees! Dear BBC, Beekeepers do not keep ‘BUMBLEBEES’ (Yes in capitals and bold s ..read more