Recent content by beebod

Just thought you'd like an update. It's now been 3 weeks since hiving this small cast. I looked through them yesterday and found just 30 bees! Yes 30, they were in a tiny bunch, very calm and still so I could count every last one, no sign of a Queen. I understand now when people say they just...

I have a colony that was AS'ed back on the 20th May. The queen right part has continued to be docile and well mannered and I don't need to use any smoke to go through them. However, the part which had the queen cells has turned into the nastiest colony I've ever had in 14 years of beekeeping...

Neighbour phoned to say he found a small ball of bees, grapefruit sized, at the base of a wire fence about 10m from my hives. I scooped some up and dumped them in a nuc and the rest marched in. They barely cover about 2 sides of one comb, seem quite "nervous" and fan/scent vigorously whenever...

Hi mojomoo, She looks bigger than some laying Qs I've had in the past. Virgins can take an inordinately long time to eventually start laying, longer still if the weather's gone cool, food source dried up, or there are no empty cells to lay in. Do you know for a fact that she's the same Q that...