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Hello all, I've suffered zero losses over the last couple of years and my Apiaries have grown quite a bit more than I originally anticipated - Given that I have a full time job to focus on and the missus keeps telling me that "you love your bees more than me" - I've decided I should probably...

Hi Pete, hope your bees are going well. I was just about to give you a call when my neighbour phoned to say that there is a colony setting up shop in his garden - I guess this explains where my queen has gone :-) I'm going to be finishing work early to collect, another first for me, this...

Ok - new queen is now hanging between a couple of frames of brood ready for me to remove the candy plug tomorrow to let them start eating their way to each other. Things could have gone a lot smoother - there was some drone brood cells and I did spot a few grains of rice (I didn't recognise...

Thanks Midland Beek - this approach seems like a really good compromise... the whole trouble with the brood and a half is the added stress of tooling around with 2 separate boxes that the queen could be roaming around in. Using this approach the queen is always confined to a single box with the...

Hi all, I have a colony on national brood and a half that is currently Queen-less (and eggless), they had a number of emergency queen cups which were damaged when I took the super frames out for inspection - the damn things had a small amount of brace comb down to the deep frames which tore the...

Hi all, I've just started my second year beekeeping and I'd like a couple of AMM queens for two new colonies this year - I'd really like to source them locally - my main concern is helping propagate the native AMM so as pure as possible is my desire. Does anyone on here run a queen...

Well now that I know it's not robbing I have but the entrance back to a small opening, bigger than one bee space. I reduced it to 1 bee space as I found a lot of evidence to suggest that it helped the guard bees in their defence and the traffic would reduce opportunities for robbers to get in...

Just taken the dogs for a walk and discovered that the River Maun at the back of my house has a mile long stretch of Himalayan Balsam (or something equivalent) on both banks - all covered in bees :-) http://www.rupc.co.uk/bees/balsam1.jpg http://www.rupc.co.uk/bees/balsam2.jpg Good shout!

Bingo! I knew this and I'd read this in my books! It's 110% this - I can't believe I didn't think of it. Thank you Roola - you've made my weekend! I've just been on holiday for 3 weeks and stuffed a load of feed in the roof of the hive in case the weather turned sour before I got back. The...

Having reduced the entrances to 1 bee space - I've now uploaded a video here... http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=362530#post362530 ...I'm still unsure on the business.

Hi all, I posted in this forum a day or so ago where I was worrying that Irobbing and that my robbing countermeasures had killed a load of my bees... http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=26309 Having taken on board the advice from that thread I removed the robbing screens and...

I fitted it around 8pm - the bees were still active but I was convinced there was robbing and started panicking and thought the home bees would find a way back in so bunged it on. On top of the bee damage I also butchered a perfectly good travel screen to make my robber defence - what a tool! :-)

A quick Google shows that Sherwood Forest / Sherwood Pines is full of Himalayan Balsam (wildsherwood.co.uk) - both of which are within touching distance of my colonies. I really hope I've not done them too much damage - It's another lesson learned I guess.

The impediment has been removed but I'm going to lose sleep over this - why didn't they find the way in at the top of the robber screen? Everything I read and everyone I've spoken to have said the bees that live there will find a way in. Totally bummed out.

Hi all, I started beekeeping this spring and everything has been going great in my two colonies - I even managed to harvest a tiny bit of honey whilst leaving both my 14x12 hives with a full honey super on. Over the last few weeks one of my hives (the slightly stronger of my two) has been...

Hi all, I'm new to beekeeping and I know that the bees use the sun for navigation / communicating using the waggle dance but I've been observing a strange behaviour that I've not read about anywhere and I'm wondering what it is. Can anyone offer an explanation... I have two colonies that...

Hi Gary, I think I now have bees sorted but have passed your details to a friend if that is okay? srm99c is his username. Kind Regards, James

Could it be a failing queen that hasn't been superceded causing egg laying workers in the super?

I joined a week ago but not been to a meeting yet - sounds like a good plan!