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Timescale was three weeks. As I said I agree that the place you get stung may be important but have been told that for me any sting on head or face now = trip to A&E whether swelling immediately or not.

I have runner ducks and trained mine as ducklings to go in by laying a trail of garden peas with more inside the duck house. I also always said the same thing "come on everyone in" (boring but true) and eventually they got the idea. Now I only have to call down the garden "come on everyone in"...

Thanks all. Will be popping it underneath. Just trying to work out the right order as I need to Get the extracted wet supers dried - they are on at the moment Unite two of my colonies (if I can find HM) Treat all with apiguard "Nadir" (like that word) the uncapped ones Plus all references to...

Thanks Redwood. I always wear full kit for beekeeping but on neither of these occasions was I actually beekeeping or anywhere near the hives. Also I had been stung numerous times before taking up beekeeping. Chris - I also agree that site of sting may be important especially as I could not find...

Thank you. That will be much easier. Do we need to put a queen excluder on top (between super and BB) to prevent HM laying in it?

In two year I have had around a dozens stings and assumed I was ok. Not so. Got stung on the scalp by a bee that I was trying to gently eject from the house one evening. Next morning A&E trip and intravenous drugs required as woke up like this, eyes eventually almost closed and tongue swelling...

So this is my second year and we have just extracted over 50 lbs of honey from capped supers with more to do. However we have several frames that are not sufficiently capped. Could we extract them separately, put the honey from them into feeders and feed it back to the bees to get them to...

Very happy as both my new queens have successfully mated since there are eggs and brood in both. Leaving them alone tested my patience but was clearly the right thing to do. Managed to spot and mark one of the new queens. Also the small swarm we took last week is thriving in the nuc, queen is...

I know nothing goes to plan but I had made one before I started today! Hive one - still no sign of eggs or a queen and is three weeks post emergence of queen from cell (happened whilst we were inspecting). So plan to drop test frame of eggs in which we did Hive two - demaree performed three...

Finally managed to find and mark the elusive queen from the swarm I caught (from one of my hives - wasn't able to mark her before she swarmed either). Well I say me, I managed to spot and get her in the clip. Hubbie ran her into the marking cage. Success.

With respect My comment -"I have only seen it referred to as an autumn or winter treatment" Your answer - "you're wrong" No I wasn't. I wrote as a statement of what I had seen and conscious I am still relatively new, I was curious as to why you would use it and concerned that according to...

Several points occur to me Why use it when you don't know if you have a problem? It can do harm - you should know the potential problems I have only seen it referred to as an autumn or winter treatment I don't believe you should "bin" it. Read up on how to safely dispose of it.

Not strictly at the apiary but spent the day at a "bee health" day with excellent lectures and demonstrations covering disease, varroa, comb changing and apiary hygiene. We had newbies and old hands and a wealth of knowledge being shared. Flippin cold at times in an outdoor classroom and a...

Wet and windy but had to check top BB of hive we performed demaree on last week as it's been 5 days. Worked inbetween showers. Knocked down quite a few "play cups" and found one charged cell on new drone comb. We aren't ready to breed a new queen so removed drone comb with cell. Intending to do...

As posted yesterday neighbour has a swarm which is not from one of ours. Her neighbour is now convinced we are "attracting them" Er no. We don't have bait hives or empty hives out but she does have lots of derelict sheds and structures in her garden. I didn't like to suggest that these may be...

Text from neighbour to say my bees were swarming again and had been flying over her garden. Given actions taken yesterday seemed unlikely unless QC in hive one was not Supercedure and there was another queen in there so it was a cast? Got home two hours later. Decent size swarm in her tree...

Just a few questions which I think will help those with lots of knowledge answer When you say last checking, do you mean post swarm? Did you see any Queen cells? Did you put the brood box on after the swarms?

Hive one - swarmed two weeks ago. Was not going to inspect but bees behaving oddly and I was concerned as we only left one QC. Had a look, queen had emerged from QC but no sign of her. Three more QC in centre of other frames. Paused and thought. Supercedure? Knocked down two. Left largest one...

A difference of opinion on beekeeping matters- how unusual! Thanks for the advice. We will turn 30,30,30. - to the south.

Thank you. I think we might be able to do that instead.