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Our #RHSTwitterClinic is open from 12-2pm 🌻 What's your gardening question for Horticultural Advisor Becky, today? Becky will also host a live Q&A over on our Instagram tomorrow at 12pm. Tune in if you can!

We're recruiting! BfD is hiring two new roles to join our small #Monmouth team. We're looking for a Projects Officer & a Communications Officer, to help our work ensuring #beekeeping delivers change globally. Have you got what it takes? Apply today: beesfordevelopment.org/about-us/vacan…

🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹 Spaces are now very limited for the trip of a lifetime this February! Only TWO spaces remain for an 11-day Beekeeper's Safari to #Trinidad & #Tobago! Escape those winter blues, and discover unforgetable #Caribbean surroundings. Info: beesfordevelopment.org/events-calenda…

Ornamental plants: a threat to the environment due to climate change? One of our PhD students, @TomosJones92, is looking for gardeners to complete a survey to help to identify future invasive plants: bit.ly/2oU2rXJ

You might get lucky if you go out #hiking! Rare types of #Orchid grow in trees in the #rainforest. The orchid pictured is an Ascda Orange Glow crossed with an Ascda Orange Delight cultivated by one of our island specialists 🌼🌴 #Grenada #Carriacou #SpiceIsle #Orchid #Flowers

Kentucky entomologist makes comprehensive list of local plants visited by bees #bees #gardens bit.ly/2rhsdYX

Attract Native Bees to Your Garden: University of California entomologist Gordon Frankie is researching what plant... http://bit.ly/bX4gQo

"Solitary female bees have their nests to go to at night or when they are not out feeding from flowers. However, males don’t have anywhere to go. They end up having to sleep on stems of plants." Source and picture from Dino J. Martins, entomologist in Kenya #bees #insects #nature

Sussex Prof @DaveGoulson has become 'Minister of Pesticides' in A People’s Manifesto for Wildlife, led by @ChrisGPackham 🐝🌿🌼 ow.ly/PCVN50jjUkt

Caribbean Pollinator Rescue: Fundraiser post-Hurricane Maria, benefiting beekeepers and pollinator conservation efforts in Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands, and Dominica. Last day to donate, and get a really cool t-shirt! giraylab.wixsite.com/tugrulgiraylab…

We have teamed up with @Pollinators to provide much-needed hives for Puerto Rican beekeepers impacted by Hurricanes Maria and Irma. To learn more about the Caribbean Bee Rescue Campaign, visit: buff.ly/2AMpUlf #SaveTheBees

Help save Caribbean bees! Beekeepers in the islands need our help. gofundme.com/fund-for-puert…

New blog post! Check out a recap of our #Caribbean #Bee Rescue Campaign which provided bee food and supplies to #Bees and #Beekeepers in #PuertoRico and the #USVI - pollinator.org/blog#caribbean

#lablife on a #Fieldayfriday for #spartaninsects @MSUEntomology @Recevej

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And this is why it's so hard to ID bees (& other insects!) from photos! #ozpollinators @EcologyToby #ANBC2018

Centred in a cup of royal jelly, a new queen bee larva looks like a pearl necklace. And the countdown to a swarm begins - unless the beekeeper intervenes. Remember that the word “beekeeper” is made up of two words: “bee” and “keep”. If your bees swarm, then you haven’t kept them.

A properly mated queen bee is good for a reign of a thousand days. Here’s a freshly-marked majesty returning, red-dotted, to her realm: Vivat Regina!

Always enchanting to see polychrome patches of pollen stashed in the larder of the hive. As vegetarians, the bees’ protein source is pollen, while nectar provides the carbs. That’s the two major food groups stored in the wax comb!

A soggy day of beekeeping to mark the end of the “summer rigour” (it starts in May and means that each hive must be inspected every 10 days). Alan Hulme from @UrbanOrganicCIC in Blackpool shadowed me on my rounds for the day. Couldn’t ask for a better wet-weather bee-buddy!

Totally delighted to see our honey at each place setting for @JamesSimison and @sophiadaoudi’s Wedding Breakfast.