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Bee swarm in Llanddulas? Help is a minute away.

Llanddulas is a small coastal village on the North Wales coast between Abergele and Colwyn Bay, tucked into the narrow coastal strip where the limestone hills meet the Irish Sea. The Afon Dulas runs through the village to the beach, and the steep hillsides behind carry gorse, bracken, and limestone grassland. The village itself is a quiet settlement with older stone properties, cottage gardens, and the sheltered hedgerows of the Dulas valley behind it. Hawthorn in the valley hedgerows, gorse on the hillside, bramble on the railway embankment and lane margins, and lime in the amenity planting of Abergele and Colwyn Bay nearby contribute a varied coastal-and-upland forage palette.

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LL22
Where swarms appear in Llanddulas

Typical swarm locations

Collectors cover swarms in the cottage gardens and hedgerows of Llanddulas village, on the gorse-covered limestone hillside above the coastal strip, along the Afon Dulas bankside elder and hawthorn scrub, and in the eaves and cavity walls of the older terraced and stone-built properties in and around the village.

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Beekeeping associations near Llanddulas

Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.

  • Conwy Beekeepers

    LL32 8UH· approx. 16 km

  • South Clwyd Beekeepers

    LL15 2LB· approx. 33 km

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  • Flint and District Beekeepers

    CH7 6BQ· approx. 34 km

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Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.

Forage in Conwy

Hawthorn and blackthorn fill the old enclosure hedges of the Conwy valley and the coastal plain. Sycamore is abundant on every sheltered valley slope and lane. The defining late-summer flow comes from ling heather on the Mynydd Hiraethog, Tal-y-Fan, and Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen moorlands — still worked commercially by some beekeepers who migrate hives from the coast in August. Lime lines the Victorian promenades of Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, and Abergele through June. Bramble is prolific along disused railway trackbeds, forestry margins, and the Conwy valley flood-plain hedgerows. Gorse provides an early-spring supplement on the upland commons above Penmaenmawr and Llanfairfechan.

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