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White light gentle-soft Thistledown blows by the oaks Snow in summer-time Thistledown from Marion Malcher on Vimeo .

Most places have a number of nectar flows, which beekeepers tend to call honey flows, through the year and these vary with location, habitat...

Do you know what a swarm of honey bees arriving looks like? My doorbell rang. "There's a swarm of bees, come and get them!" O...

"Help, there are bees living in my roof!" That's a phrase I hear a lot from callers during May, June and July who believe they...

Sometimes, strangely, things remain hidden, even in the busiest of places. Wandering around near one of several places I keep bees, I found...

A pond in winter looks cold and lifeless, but when spring returns it brims with life. Water attracts all kinds of creatures and the tiniest ...

Yew Berry by  Didier Descouens   CC BY-SA 3.0 The English Yew, (Taxus baccata), one of the few native British evergreens is renowned for...

I noticed an Owl Pellet while checking my beehives after a stormy night. I've seen pellets here before and I know that an Owl, most like...

October 2014 has been very mild in south-east England and the bees have been making the best of the sunshine to bring home stores of nectar ...

Miss Mouse paid a visit to our compost bin. The Wood Mouse is one of the UK's most common mammals.  I think she was after the swee...

Whatever next? Here is a little snake - a juvenile grass snake, and it's in my bee skep! My daughter spotted this grass snake in o...

Kings, Queens, Lords and Ladies would once have listened to music being played in the Great Hall at Old Woking Palace, maybe relaxing after ...

If one takes the time to look, it is amazing what can be found in an ordinary suburban garden. Mind you, this very large beetle was hard to ...

I was high up on a moor, on the rocks of a granite tor on a hot sunny day.  The air was clear, sweet and, as I reached the top, filled with...

A splendid insect to watch. They flutter like tiny birds around the water's edge. The brilliant metallic blue males dance, showing off t...