Please be aware that both AFB and EFB have been found in North Staffordshire   A useful booklet can be downloaded from the National Bee Unit Foulbrood Disease of Honeybees

Bees in danger: Epidemic of colony collapses is linked to stressed out honeybees When honeybees are under stress they respond by sending out the youngest workers Steve Connor in the Independant Monday, 9 February 2015 The sharp decline in honeybees has been…

The photograph shows a colony that died out in January, with the queen in a tiny cluster surrounded by food.  This had been a strong colony but had been troubled by high levels of varroa, despite treatment with formic acid…

Nosema becomes a problem when newly-emerged bees ingest spores