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Hi All Anything considered preferably on deep brood frames . Cash waiting and can collect. Cheers Matt

Hi All I'm looking to expand and would like any bees, housed preferably on 12x14 frames. Cash waiting and I can pick up. Cheers Matt

Hey Neil I'll take them off your hands if you want ............ I have an empty hive atm......... Cheers Matt

New Bees Found Hey All All 3 colonies inspected and looking good. I also discovered that I have a new bee type to me, resident in the apiary grounds the very good looking Tawny Mining Bees, see link:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawny_mining_bee They live in burrows that look like little...

Hey icanhopit Great line up of diverse interests you have. Do you own any Nortons ? A friend of mine has several Brits but no Nortons, although another friend in fact his youger brother has owned his commando for 30 ish years and does not see any reason to replace it...

Hey Torq Great collection you have, including the cars I had a couple of two stroke triples back in the day a KH250 then a S3, if you stumble across any other Laverdas give me a shout. On my to do list is archery and making tradition long bows along with getting back into coarse fishing...

Hey All Real drama eh ?....... In the end it was a Gaelic conspirasy against us English............:smilielol5: Roll on the world cup. Cheers Matt

Hey All The view on Saturday mid-dayish, lovely to see. Cheers Matt

Hey All I was just wondering what beeks pastimes/interest/other hobbies are, when not tending to bees; I have two other main interests, one being motorcycles especially older bikes, so if you have one or more languishing in a shed or garage give me a shout. I have three bikes a Honda VTR1000...

Hey All It was 10 degrees on Sunday, so watched some bees flying around from all three hives which I enjoyed. Hefted all three hives, one light, other two heavy. Roll on spring. Matt

Noted, locally the ivy flow has now really slowed in the last week but still coming in. Thanks Matt

The supers are on top and full of stores, with no QX............. I'm unsure if I should nadir or not, what's putting me off is disturbing the colony. Watched some live drones being evicted yesterday, very interesting and a first for me. Cheers...

Hey All Thanks for the input, greatly appreciated. The varroa drop has continued to be the odd one or two per week, sometimes none. The hive is really heavy, deep broad plus two supers and I'll continue hefting. Again thanks. Matt

Hey All I used Apigard in September 2014, for two treatments, in line with the recommendations on their site. The Varroa drop was almost nothing, 5 or so mites over the whole treatment. Thanks Matt

hey All Found these dead on the floor outside my hives entrance. What are they ? ( Removed drone brood ?) What do I need to do if anything ? Cheers Matt

Hey All From what I understand from talking to pest controllers, mice can enter any gap or hole larger than 6mm, 1/4 inch. Cheers Matt

Hey All Novice here, armed with a mouse guard and looking dangerous. They do say a little knowledge is dangerous..........:laughing-smiley-004 My current understanding is that, bees can defend against mice entering the hive during the ''active'' season, but once clustered for the winter they...

Hey All With my first beek winter before me, how large is a typical winter cluster ? Tennis ball, rugby ball, soccer ball or other ? Cheers Matt

Hey All As we are brain storming for solutions. Is there anything that eats hornets and not bees ? Maybe unlikely. Cheers Matt

Hey All I'm in North Staffs ( UK ) and mine are going great guns on Sedum, just like summer. Cheers Matt