Recent content by Old Boar's Apiary

I have no experience of this, but our local association apparently rents out extractors and equipment for £5 a week, which is a no-brainer really even if just for a few frames.

Wow, well done guys!

Heard about this last week, looking forward to seeing it :)

Thank you Bosleeu and everyone else in the thread :), we do want to try sticking one in a hive of laying workers as a last ditch (but unlikely to work) effort to save it (the advice in the other thread was very helpful). We figure the QCs would have to be disposed of anyway, so if it doesn't...

Looks great, might be asking you for one of these one day in a few years, when we have more experience! You should definitely think about selling them :)

Ah, that sounds straightforward. Thank you :)

Hi again, Posted on here late last week asking how to try and save a laying worker hive, got lots of great advice which we're going to try tomorrow (weren't able to get to the hives over the weekend). Got another question now if anyone could help, we're going to have to remove 4 or 5 capped...

Thanks for all the advice guys! @Ratcatcher - great vid @Bosleeu - Good to hear that someone had success with it, there's a small chance it might work for us, we'll just keep our fingers crossed!

@Ratcatcher: All the actual bees/colonies are ours. We own one actual physical hive, we are borrowing the the other 3 physical hives to house the other 3 colonies. If the person's desensitisation doesn't work, we keep the physical hives and pay him for them. If it does work, we give the physical...

Old Boar's is just a play on my other half's surname ;) Right ok, that explains that then. I've not read as much literature as my OH, if I had I'd probably have known what you meant before. We have 2 laying queens. We were told there had been a virgin queen in the colony with the QCs a few...

Thanks for the link Rook66, that, combined with a PM I got from someone else might have the solution we need :) It's all going to be a bit of a rush as the queen cells we're planning on transferring are already capped, so we only have a few days before they hatch, and we're moving the hives...

Hi there, My partner and I are completely new to beekeeping. We've been on a one day course, done lots of reading and spoken to experienced beekeepers, and we're about to acquire our first hives this weekend, where we'll be installing them at our local vineyard. All the hives are fine except...

Hi, Just joined the forum, brand new to beekeeping. My partner and I have wanted to keep bees for a while, but we didn't have anywhere we could keep them. Then we got an allotment and looked at keeping them there, which you are allowed to do, but there's a lot of hoops to jump through, so we...