Welcome to Bee 1st.
April 2024
The shop is open as usual on 12th and 13th April 2024 and is manned by Roger as Gary and Chris are at the BBKA Spring Convention. If you’re attending the show please drop and say hello. Chris and Gary 🐝
The Oil Seed Rape (OSR) is now in bloom and so are top fruit trees as well as hedgerows. We’re seeing supers filling up so if you haven’t got yours on then now is the time.
The season feels like it’s a couple of weeks ahead of last year and swarms are already being reported by some of the local collectors at NHBKA.
A number of Asian yellow legged hornet queens have already been reported. It’s too early for workers so if you are using the excellent Gard’Apis monitoring traps from us, then you should be using the RED nozzles.
Gard’Apis.
The traps have been designed and developed in the field in France by beekeepers. The design has under gone 28 iterations so that it only catches Asian hornet queens and workers. By-Catch is reduced to a minimum by using two different sized nozzles, the red nozzle is used to catch queens in the spring and autumn and the orange nozzle to catch workers during the summer. RRP £23.99 each, bulk discounts available for Beekeeping Associations.
For more information on the Gard’Apis traps then click here
Opening times:-
Wednesdays 3pm till 7pm
Fridays 3pm till 7pm
Saturdays – 9am till 12 noon.
Our address is:-
Unit 1, Green Gates, Lower Titmore Green
Nr Little Wymondley, Herts,
SG4 7JT
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Beginners Kits
Now in stock complete beginners kits, Hive, Suit, Tools and Smokers. Click here for more info
Call us today to place your order for bee feeds or for beekeeping equipment or hives.
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