Recent content by colin

show wax Hi have a look at my photos it shows you how show wax should look.

queen cell A virgin will do this to a queen cell to kill the queen inside or the bees thought it a dud and started to pull it down look for a opened queen cell there opened at the bottom of the queen cell like a trap door.

The bee prices at Lincoln Bee Auction the few that were sold first was fetching around £140 to £150 did not stop to see anymore sold so I do not no if the prices went up.

Hi i have a hard back book by Leslie Bailey honey bee pathology first edition printed in 1981 in very good condition for sale best offer over £90.00. please pm me.

uncapping We used a gratton surrated bladed knive most of beekeeping life worked well for us.We only used an uncapping fork when we could not get the comb uncapped with the knive.

showing honey Hi, showing your honey at shows takes a bit time to get things right but when you start taking first,second or third prizes in the honey classes this is like having a shop window for your product. We have sold many tons of honey to shops and garden centres many years ago only by...

straining Hi we used muslin cloth to strain all our honey .You will be amazed at how clean it leaves your honey.We used this method for years even when showing honey.

Hi, beans can produce a lot of a medium coloured honey if the weather is good and it is very good quality.Many years ago we extracted over half a ton of field bean honey from 12 hives.

Hi it could be young bees going on a orientation flight which they do.

stings Hi, itma, no other advice only to give the hobby up.I suffer with diabetes which is another one of lifes things telling you to be careful.Over all the years of keeping bees and showing at honey shows and joy i have had from them i can look back with fondness of the people i have met and...

stings I started last year to have quiet bad reactions against bee stings and that is after forty years of keeping bees.I was very sad to see all the bees and equipment go but on medical advice it had be. colin

gave up beekeeping Hi i gave up keeping bees last year had a very nice gentleman from norfolk bought all the hives bees and equipment .The only reason they had to go was medical when they become life threatening from the stings common sense previels.The best hobby you can be involved in .

We put in the last of our bee equipment 73 lots and was very pleased with the prices we got. It was well attended but a bit chilly. Did not watch the bees being sold .Not many bees for sale this year.

We used canvas clothe with a feed hole cut in which could be opened for feeding and then closed when the feeder is removed.It was also usefull when checking frames just to pull back and expose what you wanted to see without all the the brood frames being exposed if weather was a bit cool or cloudy.

poaching sites Hi,many years ago we used to pollenate for a well known local seed producer then we had twenty hives dumped next to ours with no id on them .We then had a bee farmer put eighty hives within a quarter of a mile of our apiary then it became harder for the beees to get surplus honey...