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A newt!! for the first time in 24 years I found a newt in our garden! I'd been clearing some leaves from one of our several little mini...

I am really pleased to tell you that my honey and beeswax won prizes in the National Honey Show at the end of October. For the third year ru...

Karl Von Frisch was the famous Austrian Nobel Prizewinner, who discovered how honeybees communicate by dancing.

A cool, humid day high up in the forest in the Austrian Salzkammergut - perfect weather for Salamanders!  They love temperatures around 15°C...

The honey from some of my honeybee colonies this year is dark, rich, honeydew honey - and this is rather special!

"What a beautiful spider!" those words may be a surprise, but take a look and you'll agree that the Wasp Spider is rather spec...

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 ...