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I'm looking to sell 2 full colonies in hives (roof , brood box, omf floor, crown board). both are laying well and are this years' queens. I need to thin out as I need to spend more time on my uni studies. £250 each.

I performed an AS on Friday with one of my hives, not a problem the queen was removed and put onto fresh foundation and moved to another apiary because I had run out of room, they have drawn out a couple of frames and she is laying already. The old hive, I left in the same location, with two...

Having made up a couple of nucs earlier on in the year from my strongest colony for insurance purposes, I have one I would like to now sell as I have no need for it. It has a marked 2013 buckfast queen from a reputable supplier and is laying strongly and building up well. It will need to go into...

two weeks or so ago I performed an AS on one of my colonies, all seemed ok last week , not a problem QC sealed in new colony and queen ok on new foundation. This week I inspected and the queen has swarmed leaving queen cells all over the newly drawn comb and far fewer bees, I was a bit...

is it better to leave the excluder off to get supers drawn out? I have plenty of supers but the majority are undrawn

I recently bought what was supposed to be an AMM queen from P**nes, which I put in a nuc box with some brood and shook a load of bees in.. On inspection for the first time today I found her but there isnt a bit of black on her anywhere, she actually looks like a carniolan which I definately dont...

sorry this might seen like a totally pointless post but when inspecting one of the hives earlier, they were acting differently to anytime i have seen before, is it normal behaviour? you need to click on the picture - its a video

Do any of you know if rosebay willowherb would be any use to help build up a colony or two, I have have access to some land that has acres of the stuff and just wondered if it was worth it.

Not being the green fingered type, I have no idea what flowers are what, these just look like pink ones to me but the bees seem to love them, any ideas?

Got home at lunch time to find a lot of bees taking interest in a nuc box I have out in the garden thats got old comb in it. There seemed to be more and more turn up, then about half an hour ago it died off, so I decided t have a look and theres hardly any in it.... I'm not sure what they were...

Do these look like any particular type of bee or just lincolnshire mongrels? They are a swarm that arrived in a bait hive.

always a drama eh? But I've had to requeen all 4 hives for various reasons, 3 of the are going great guns , but although the 4th queen is laying there seems to be very few bees now its dwindled down, which I'm guessing in turn is stopping the queen laying great swathes of eggs. Theres maybe...

I have just united a queenless cast with a swarm that arrived in my bait hive, so not knowing if there is a queen in there and to try and help it along ( rightly or wrongly ) I have put in with it a frame with brood at all stages. I they were to start drawing out queen cells, is it now too late...

Well for some reason i've decided to have a go at building a nuc box, and I bought ( rightly or wrongly) an 8x4 sheet of 18mm ply. So my question is does anyone have a cutting list for using 18mm ply? thanks shabro

I have a colony which has a queen which hatched a couple of weeks back , that I knew had a queen in and noticed eggs in last week, no problem I thought, until a visit today and I noticed that all the worker cells that there are larvae in are starting to be drawn out and be domed, like drone...

looking for a queen to replace one that hasnt got mated before the colony dies out.

dont know if this is of any use but I've just bought 15kg of tate and lyles sugar, they are doing 5kg bags for £3.99

I did an inspection on the nuc I hived last week as the weather was good today, when I put them in the hive I noticed there was capped brood but didn't dig any further due to the weather. I didnt see any eggs, grubs or capped brood,but I did see HRH and she looked ok. Is this cause for concern...

looking for a national nuc to build up, asap really in lincolnshire / e yorks

is there any mesh commercially available suitable for OMF? I'm going to have a go at building some floors.