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Just back from a weeks holiday in Ibiza and not too many issues with wasps but noticed some bees after the fizzy drinks. Strange indeed as there was water everywhere due to being next to a very busy swimming pool. Put my back out 3 weeks ago and as a result the hives have gone unopened...

Based in North Worcestershire I am looking to reduce my number of colonies. I want to reduce from 5 to 3 colonies. I have yet to do full inspections but the colonies appear to have overwintered well. They were vaped for varroa late autumn and are on National frames. They can be available in a...

Slow motion video from the hive entrances this evening https://vimeo.com/274551495?ref=em-share Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I was asked by PM about my experience of plastic foundation so here is my personal view of it. I could not reply by PM as the members inbox is full so here we are. It’s a contentious subject. I did some research and was a little misguided and bought Mann Lake MODIFIED Nationals when I started...

Apologies for the bad language but "oh my days!!!" Not proud of this one, but if what happened today can be a lesson to anyone then it is worth me stating, but what a total F*c*ing Doofus I feel right now for todays misdemeanour. Went through 3 colonies, all overwintered well no losses...

Apart from looking after bees, I quite like photography as well, so here are a few for perusal via the albums and I hope that the link works. https://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/album.php?albumid=797 Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 85mm macro for those that are interested. Some also using a sigma...

I have too many bees for my needs so looking to sell a 6 frame nucleus headed with a laying 2017 marked queen that is ready now. She is F1 local mated Buckfast, nice calm bees though. These will come in a 6 frame waxed cardboard nuc for easy transport to be hived after collection. They are...

I have increased from the 2 colonies I had coming out of winter to 4 colonies and 3 of these are on double brood. I need to reduce numbers so have some bees for sale. I am on the Worcestershire/Warwickshire border. If anyone is interested in a 2017 produced mated laying F1 Buckfast queen...

"We've got a nice garden" she said, "Out in the country" she said, "We can help the bees" she said, "We've got space for a (singular) hive" she said, "I'll help..." she said, "Full Time Job" he said! [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji219][emoji219][emoji219][emoji219] Sent from my iPhone using...

I know it's early and I have been searching the forum for a week, on and off, to try to find a good thread on how and when to make up nucs to overwinter a couple of queens. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful. Obviously needs to be early enough to get the queen...

Interesting angle on bees in the sunshine. Need to improve the angles a little. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

copy of a post in the Apiary today thread . last weekend was extraction of OSR did in a day and cleaned down great. One hive was making swarm preps so AS performed at same time. Didn't want daughters from this queen so went back in today. Swarm colony no eggs lots of Queen cells in various...

None of the books and texts on artificial swarms make specific mention of any differences when swarm controlling a double brood box. I assume you treat the 2 boxes as a single unit and move both in the way you would for single brood? What I would like to know is that as on double brood you get...

Can someone point me towards a page on honey label requirements. Just thinking direct sale not to resellers. Have tried the search page but trawled through loads of pages and struggling. Any help appreciated. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Ok, my son may be a little too young to help out yet. Once the suit fits though....... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Opened the hives for an inspection the other day and whereas normally you find the queen on a frame put her back and don't see her again, I put this queen back into the hive and carried on inspecting. I was then quite surprised to find her again, 5 frames along checking cells. Yes she is...

Driving home today I went down a lane I haven't driven down for a few weeks and found a field of Rape that is just coming into flower 400m from my hives. All of the local Rape fields have been out of range before now. I have spent the last hour trawling the forum for old threads regarding in...

Just back off holiday and found honey bees as seen in photo. Ended up hunting out what species likely to be but can't be certain. Mauritius is mostly A.m 50% sub species Africense and the remainder a mix of linguistica and carnica. Really dark bees where we were. This one on a Frangipani...

Just found this forum had a look round and think I will stay ;-) My wife did a bee intro course last year and sold me on the idea as we have a good sized garden. Bought a few books incl. Ted Hooper. Loved the idea and thought this will be fun and my wife's done a course...! Any ways we...