Recent content by BeeJolly

thanks Rab, put my mind at rest, i'll refrain from rushing out in my pyjamas to save them from roasting to death :-)

We made a weekend of it and went to a lovely beekeeping supplier in North Wales (Ruthin). Ruthin is a nice place to wander around, eat etc. supplier cheap and helpful.....go on spoil yourself and call it helping the bees out :-)

Thanks for reply, they have plenty of room in the super ( if only they would draw it out :) ) We put the varoa board in for the first time a few nights ago and it has been hotter here today. I guess this explains it. Do we need to take the varoa board out before we have finished monitoring the...

Just a quick question from a newbee. I have a handful of docile looking bees hanging around one of my hives and half a dozen 'poking their heads out' of the other. It has gone dark and cooler. The one with a handful of bees has half a dozen dead bees in front from today, the other has a few...

thanks guys. I thought once a frame had been laid in you couldn't extract honey from it. I will remove my QE should it ever stop raining here :-)

This may be a dumb question, but what stops the queen laying in the supers if the QE us removed. We have same problem, but I hesitate to remove QE in case we end up in an awful mess

There are some pollen stores in the hive,not loads. Should I be spoiling my bees more and buying pollen to feed them up, or is this overkill?

I am a new bee beek. One thing I have learned is that what ever question you ask everyone has a different answer :-) I have had two completely differnt answers to my question and was wanting further advice. I got a 5 frame nuc 5 weeks ago, they were building up nicely and building wax at a good...