Left: George Pilkington with some of his bespoke bee boxes; right: Homemade boxes are easy to make – just make sure they are somewhere dry “By putting up a bee house you are concentrating the bees in ...

Q: There are bumble bees living in a box on my potting bench. One of them stung me. I don’t want to kill them, but I’d like to use the potting bench. Is there a safe way (for them and for me!) to move ...