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Anyone noting higher water content and much paler honey this summer? This years summer crop has been 18 / 19% and very yellow. Extracted some honey for my colleages uncle whom lives about 20 miles away from us in Cirencester and had much the same situation. Had a few usual customers getting a...

Have an issue with an overwintered nuc a customer had at the start of April. We kept about 50 for ourself and sold the rest on, noting no issues with the ones we kept or other customers reporting issues. Customer has emailed a few weeks back explaining lots of dead bees outside the hive which...

I query for you all, We are on the DASH and have passed the first stage and today my colleague is out with inspectors checking all the loads on what I thought would be our final inspection and approved onto the scheme for inspect our hives for the next 3 years without hassle and we can get on...

I have been offered a few Pollination contracts for next season on Apples & Borage. I have never dealt with Pollination before and without speaking to Alan first, what sort of rates are standard to be charging? The Borage is not too far from me so in all fairness if it returns a decent crop...

We have been approached by a Betty TV, an award winning Television Production Company in London. They make documentaries like Heston’s Great British Food, The Fabulous Baker Brothers, Bear Grylls Wild Weekends (with Stephen Fry) and Country House Rescue. Betty TV are currently developing a new...

Confirmed Small Hive Beatle in a bait hive in Southern Italy. See if they can control it but its a heavily populated area for bees. Puts a big queston mark over some of us importers..

Arranging with Rob now to bulk buy 100 Swienty Poly Brood boxes so if anyone wants to get in on it and get a decent rate in bulk the order will be done over the next week. [email protected]

Trying to get hold of seconds frames - at least 2000 DN4 national deeps. Maisemore rang me today to tell me they will refuse to serve us as we will buy the lot, even though I had rang them 6 weeks ago asking for them then but was told to wait till the sale. Real kick in the balls as screws our...

Looking to do a bulk buy of 20+ to trial on a site and see how they do. Only suppliers I have found is C W J. I have asked Murray as he has share in the tooling I believe but I don't want to pester him too much as I've never had a reply about it. Anyone point me in the right direction?

We have just bought 30 of these boxes, painted them with masonry paint and transferred nucs over from our wooden boxes ready to winter. Now I'm sure most are aware of the wasp infestation but this is unreal. The boxes are now about 5 days into use and the wasps are chewing through the Poly and...

Is there any plant experts that can direct me to some information on this plant? I had them in my garden for the past 2 years and am planting more and the bees seems to thrive on them but I'm not sure if they provide anything. Anyone care to assist? Perennial Wallflower (Bowles Mauve) Produces...