Bee swarm in Bo'ness? Help is a minute away.

Bo'ness — short for Borrowstounness — is a former industrial port town on the south shore of the Firth of Forth between Grangemouth and Linlithgow, where the Forth narrows above the estuary. The town's Foreshore and the Hippodrome Cinema reflect a Victorian seaside and industrial character; the Kinneil Estate to the west, surrounding Kinneil House and Kinneil Museum, provides the best forage landscape in the area — mature estate parkland of lime, sycamore and horse chestnut with a sheltered woodland setting above the Firth shore. The Forth foreshore carries sea aster and sea campion; the Kinneil Wilderness local nature reserve provides unimproved grassland and scrub. The Union Canal terminates at Bo'ness, and its towpath carries himalayan balsam into September.

Oilseed rape on the Forth Carse between Larbert, Grangemouth and Airth provides the main April-May flow, one of the most productive in central Scotland. White clover on the improved Carse pastures and the amenity grasslands of the Falkirk and Larbert parks is the mid-summer backbone from June through July. Sycamore is the dominant early flow tree on road margins and hedgerows throughout the council area. The Forth and Clyde Canal and Union Canal towpaths carry himalayan balsam strongly from late July into September — one of the defining features of the Falkirk beekeeping calendar. Hawthorn on the Carron valley hedgerows and the canal embankments peaks in May; gorse and broom appear on the Kilsyth Hills fringe above Bonnybridge and on the Slamannan Plateau in the south. Heather on the Carron Valley moorland above Denny and on the Slamannan Plateau provides a modest late-season upland supplement. Ivy on older stone buildings closes the calendar in October.