Every jar starts at a hive we look after.
[Your story: how Merseybees started, where around Liverpool your hives are, and what the bees forage on through the year.]
Honey from the hives of Merseyside.
Merseybees keeps honeybees around Liverpool and jars what they make in small batches. Order straight from the beekeeper, for collection or local delivery.
This season's honey
Stock follows the harvest, so jars come and go through the year.
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Accessories
Bits and pieces we sell alongside the honey.
Nucs
Nucleus colonies from our own apiaries, for beekeepers starting out or adding a hive.
Coming in 2027. Get on the list.
We'll email you when nucs are ready to reserve, before they go on sale here.
Sponsor a hive
No garden, no bee suit, no stings. Sponsor the Merseybees hives from £5 and you're part of keeping healthy colonies foraging across Liverpool.
Every hive sends thousands of bees out across the gardens, allotments and parks around it, pollinating fruit, vegetables and wildflowers as they go. Keeping those colonies strong takes year-round care, and sponsors help cover it:
- Getting colonies through winter with feed when the honey stores run low.
- Keeping bees healthy by monitoring and treating varroa mites, the biggest threat to UK honeybees.
- Frames, wax and kit as colonies grow and new ones are started.
[What sponsors get from you, e.g. a seasonal update from the hives, or their name on a hive.]
Found a swarm of bees?
Don't panic, and please don't spray it. A swarm is a honeybee colony looking for a new home, and the bees are usually calm. Tell us where it is and we'll do our best to collect it and settle it into a hive.
[The area you cover, e.g. Liverpool and nearby. Say whether collection is free.]
Urgent? Call us
Thanks, we've got it.
Your reference is . We'll call you back as soon as we can.
If it's urgent, call us.
Is it a honeybee swarm?
- A clump or cloud of bees, often hanging from a branch, fence or wall.
- Slim, golden-brown to dark bees, about the size of a fingernail.
- It appeared suddenly, usually on a warm day between May and July.
Probably not a swarm
- Big, furry bumblebees going in and out of a hole or bird box. Leave them be: the nest dies off naturally by the end of summer.
- Shiny yellow-and-black wasps, or a papery nest. That's a job for pest control, not a beekeeper.
While you wait
Keep people and pets back, and don't spray, block or disturb the bees. Swarms can move on within hours, so the sooner you tell us the better.
How ordering works
- Fill your basket
Pick your honey, sizes and anything else you'd like.
- Choose collection or delivery
Pick how you'd like to get it in your basket, then pay securely with Stripe.
- Collect or receive it
[Your collection point, delivery area and usual turnaround.]