We have been very busy during the start of this year working on a very special project. With demand for UK bred queens still increasing, we made the decision last year to build a new building to help us produce more queens. This building will help us rearing more queens Read more…
We are pleased to say that over Autumn and winter we will be running beekeeping theory courses. It has been a long time in the making. Having found a suitable venue, Quince Honey Farm in North Devon, it is now a reality. Quince Honey Farm is one of the UK’s Read more…
This year has certainly been an odd one so far. With the weather and COVID19, it has been hard to plan ahead. With things beginning to calm down, we will hopefully have an uneventful rest of the year. It has certainly been a busy year so far, the hot weather Read more…
We rear our queens for instrumental insemination here in the UK at our farm in North Devon. We’ve been really busy grafting more queens for II. These queens are ideal for use as breeders for stock improvement and raising your own queens. Queen Grafting We graft day old larvae from Read more…
Although spring and the start of the beekeeping season seems a long way off, it will soon be upon us. Whilst the weather is cold and there is little beekeeping to do, its a great idea to sort out all your equipment ready for the spring. Over the next month Read more…
We’ve been checking our honey bee nucs to ensure they have plenty of stores for winter. This is an important time of the year to be keeping an eye on your honey bee colonys as they can easily starve during the dearth. These colonys will be offered for sale to Read more…
The summer is coming to an end and autumn is on its way, its been a very busy year and we have had a successful season raising queens and taken a good honey harvest. Now is the time of year to keep an eye on your colonies’ stores and feed Read more…
At Bishops Bees Bee Farm we rear queen honey bees for sale. We use proven rearing methods and instrumental insemination, to produce a large number of high quality queens. Furthermore, unlike natural mating, we are not heavily affected by weather as we inseminate all of our queens. This means that Read more…
Once our Queens have been Instrumentally Inseminated, we prove their laying and fertility using mating nucs. This allows us to assess the success of the queens before offering them for sale or selecting them to head colonies. Pre and post care of the queens is very important for the success Read more…
We’ve had a busy year so far with our Instrumental Insemination and experimenting with new methods to help increase success and queen care. By selecting good quality queens as drone mothers and queen mothers our inseminated queens should head productive queens next year. The process of Instrumental Insemination allows us Read more…