I WAS dismayed to read your recent article regarding neighbours in conflict with a local beekeeper. As an experienced ...

Honeybees make honey from flower nectar that they gather in their travels and bring back to their hive. The nectar is transferred from the collector bee to the worker bees back at the hive, who ...

A honey collector from Thailand who posts viral videos of his daring tree-climbing missions to reach bee hives has warned of the damage that mass fruit farming is doing to natural forests in the ...

Key points: A battery-powered collector is placed outside the hive and uses a small pulsation that bees won't detect; The bees sting a glass plate, which collects the venom and does not hurt the bee ...

Once collected, the swarm collector will keep the bees to form a new hive or will give them to a fellow beekeeper, he said. Follow BBC Tees on X (formerly Twitter) , Facebook and Instagram .