Apparently, honeybees can recognize human faces — they can be trained to distinguish between individual humans by face and continue to recognize them across different viewpoints, despite having a brain smaller than the head of a pin!
https://spacedaily.com/d-honeybees-can-recognize-human-faces-they-can-be-trained-to-distinguish-between-individual-humans-by-face-and-continue-to-recognize-them-across-different-viewpoints-despite-having-a-brain-sm/
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Bees-Still-Sting-Nature/dp/1778402011/ |
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The visit ended with 12-year-old Eco School representative Ivy presenting The Princess Royal with a jar of Royal Deaf Education Trust honey from the Academy’s own beehives. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/princess-anne-praises-deaf-academy-080400476.html |
Here's a really good idea: Hive & Keeper - Extraordinary British Honey and Homewares
https://www.hiveandkeeper.com/
There's a Honey Club, too (details below), plus a shop with more honeys as well as some beautiful products. The hand-carved birch spoons are amazing.
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Fluffy and adorable, red-tailed bumble bees, Bombus lapidarius, are ... flying virus-vectors!
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-red-tailed-bumblebees-key-hosts.html
Credit: Uni Halle / Patrycja Pluta
Customers are welcome to come and view our stock at the Iver shop, however, if there are specific books you wish to see it is advisable to contact us in advance as some stock is held at offsite storage.
Pemberley Books
18 Bathurst Walk,
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Buckinghamshire,
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U.K.
Telephone: +44 (0)1753 631114
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Prime Minister of Dominica, Dr Roosevelt Skerrit, has said that the Dominican Government will build and equip a modern facility to help in areas like production, bottling and packaging of honey.
Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, kindly note...
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25822951.bicester-business-raising-awareness-threats-bees/
https://www.facebook.com/p/A-T-Hives-100095532187024/
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https://www.irishnews.com/life/making-skincare-has-become-my-creative-outlet-how-a-co-down-woman-turned-her-beekeeping-hobby-into-a-thriving-beauty-business-4IGD4WM7OJHRHGXNOYOXRANTRE/ |
Alan Ransom, 55, from Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, died on 15 May 2024. Senior coroner Caroline Sumeray stated the cause of death as hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and anaphylactic shock, directly resulting from a severe reaction to a bee sting having failed to wear a protective hat.
A heartwarming story of community cohesion from Dunfermline, Scotland: https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/25668737.dunfermline-amazon-workers-take-beekeeping-aid-green-aims/
No doubt Mr Ross Main & Co were cajoled into the photo-opp by the journalist; what on earth is going on?
Suggestions for a suitable caption are invited...
Despite the aggravating lack of apostrophe in its title, the December 2025 edition of The Beekeepers Quarterly contains a brief review of The Beekeeper's Dictionary.
You can subscribe to TBQ at https://www.northernbeebooks.co.uk/blogs/bkq
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Years ago I was close to addicted to a magazine called Look & Learn. Now that I am bee-obsessed, the substititute fix comes from the excellent video and podcast series from Stewart Spinks: Beekeeping with Stewart Spinks | Patreon
Stewart's approach is refreshingly honest and practical - with all the ups and downs of beekeeping. You can subscribe via Patreon, and considering what's on offer the fee is an absolute snip.
Before you ask, Stewart has not asked me to promote his efforts; this is purely because I like and value his work.
Beekeeping with Stewart Spinks | Patreon
The Feminine Monarchie -or- The Historie of Bees never fails to fascinate. The first edition was published in 1609, and republished in 1623 (see image).
The Beekeeper's Dictionary includes facsimiles of the frontispiece pages from the 1623 edition. In 1634, Butler published a version using his own modernized spellings. The next edition of the Dictionary might include the 1634 frontispiece.
The 2017, Northern Bee Books published a version of The Feminine Monarchie -or- The Historie of Bees based on the 1623 text, edited and curated by John Owen: https://www.northernbeebooks.co.uk/products/the-feminine-monarchie-owen
From The Conversation in 2024, an article headed Honey bees are suprisingly abundant, research shows – but most are wild, not managed in hives.
Mainly the article tells me that we don't know much about unmanaged colonies because, er, well, they're unmanaged.
https://theconversation.com/honey-bees-are-suprisingly-abundant-research-shows-but-most-are-wild-not-managed-in-hives-224807
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https://impress.games/press-kit/afootgames/the-beekeepers-picnic |
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According to Hello! magazine (yes, it's still going), Joanna Gaines is a beekeeper. Who?
The image below, from the web page, may help you identify Joanna...
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Yes, for the beekeeper who has [nearly] everything - and for the beekeeper's Friends, Family and Significant Others who are desperate to think of something as a present... Available to purchase from Mellifica - and soon also from Northern Bee Books https://www.northernbeebooks.co.uk/
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This story smells iffy, to say the least. Were any people in Nigeria actually exterminating, or trying to exterminate, bees? No, but let's not let a headline stand in the way of a story, eh?
https://www.arise.tv/nigerians-warned-against-exterminating-bees/
If you have any idea what "Quectel supports commercial beekeeping with LTE module" means, please let me know... There's probably a good story in there, buried by technology.
https://www.iotinsider.com/news/quectel-supports-commercial-beekeeping-with-lte-module/
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Yes, for the beekeeper who has [nearly] everything - and for the beekeeper's Friends, Family and Significant Others who are desperate to think of something as a present... Available to purchase from Mellifica
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Aristotle, of Stagirus, Thinker
Baden-Powell, Agnes Smyth, Established the Girl Guides
Beckham, David Robert Joseph, Footballer
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Fascinating presentation yesterday evening from Steve Riley, author of The Honey Bee Solution to Varroa.
In a nutshell, the thesis is that treating bees with miticides is creating selection pressure for treatment-resistant mites while simultaneously creating selection pressure for varroa-susceptible bees.
As Steve confirms, this is hardly news.
The point he and others make is that it is possible to select for mite-resistant bees by close observation of behaviour, and - over time - stop treating with miticides.
The book "explains the practical steps beekeepers can take to identify and select for easily observable Varroa-resistant traits in their colonies. The science behind the bees’ mechanisms for controlling their mite populations is explained, in what is a bee-led solution to the biggest challenge facing the European honey bee."
Available from Northern Bee Books and Amazon
The obvious, curious point: the thief must have been another beekeeper.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/beehive-bandit-makes-off-57-190935708.html
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The first official Army bees have taken up residence at the headquarters of Standing Joint Command in Aldershot – and they are already creating quite a buzz.
Plenty more in the press about Vespa velutina nigrithorax... My conclusion: we may win a few battles, but the war is already lost.
Apart from the tariffs, get this: 1,000 barrels of honey (about 300 tonnes) every year!
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sask-beekeepers-hope-avoid-sting-100039670.html
