This year the splendidly well-organised Royal Show was blessed with fine weather and apparently attracted over 18,000 visitors! Quite how many of them made it to the Beekeepers tent I don’t know but there were certainly plenty of visitors. Young and old alike enjoyed the spectacle of the observation hive, admired the hive products and […]

Isle of Man Post Office have released a beautifully illustrated set of stamps featuring manx bee fauna.  The stamps are now on general sale and are impregnated with the smell of honey!  The IOM Post Office Stamps & Coins dept. kindly donated a set of the stamp artworks printed on durable plastic and blown up […]

The Island’s beekeepers again put on a grand exhibition at this year’s Southern Show. Both days were blessed with good weather and according to Jerry, “The show was busy right from the start on Saturday morning. Then at lunchtime and the afternoon it just got busier”. The tent was well visited on the Sunday as […]