Author Archives: Emily Scott

About Emily Scott

I am a UK beekeeper living in Ealing, west London. I have been keeping bees in the Ealing Beekeepers Association’s local apiary since 2008 and created this blog as a record for myself of my various beekeeping related disasters and - hopefully - future successes. Busy taking the British Beekeeping Association module exams too!

‘Neonics: everything you need to know’ infographic

Posted on June 20, 2017

I’ve been in contact with an outdoor shelters company called Sun Leisure, who designed the infographic below and asked if I would share it. The graphic originally featured some US stats on honey bees – I gave feedback suggesting that … Continue reading →

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Our bees surprise us again

Posted on June 20, 2017

It had been roughly a month since queen cells hatched in our three hives. Emma had seen big new queens in all our hives – so far, so good. Two of the queens were happily laying away – great. Yet … Continue reading →

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The life swap adventure

Posted on June 6, 2017

I keep coming across bees in unexpected places. Amongst the sadness of recent events here in the UK, a happy reference to bees came up in the BBC’s new show ‘The Life Swap Adventure‘ – available for UK viewers to … Continue reading →

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Book review – Bad Beekeeping by Ron Miksha (2004)

Posted on May 26, 2017

Ron is the author of the excellent Bad Beekeeping blog, which has recently been selected by Beesker as “the world’s very best website on bees and beekeeping”. Bad Beekeeping by Ron Miksha – available on Amazon Bad Beekeeping is no … Continue reading →

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Pollen, nosema and the case of three missing queens

Posted on May 23, 2017

This Saturday Tom ran a nosema IDing demo at the apiary. He had a microscope attached to his laptop so that he could show us what he was seeing on the screen and even take photos. After finding zero nosema in … Continue reading →

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Plant flowers, save the bees!

Posted on May 17, 2017

I’m as busy as a summer bee lately, but squeezed in some time to write a guest blog post for London based organic kids clothing company Little Green Radicals. They wanted to know about my experience with bees and how … Continue reading →

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Springwatch in Japan – with honey bees

Posted on April 26, 2017

If you didn’t catch Springwatch in Japan: Cherry Blossom Time recently, you can still watch it on catch-up for the next 25 days (available in the UK only sorry). Lots of exquisite pink cherry blossom and also some roof-top honey bees living … Continue reading →

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