Recent content by BERNIE

thank you all for your advise managed to split this hive into two,hive and a nuc.I was not able to do this at a reasonable hour of the day due to work and and attending to my mum and dad but I think it may be sorted now, squished old queen introduced new one and also to nuc,surprised how number...

Was wearing suit from friend lost confidence in my one as bee ended up in suit on previous inspection and got stung on forehead.my friend is a little shorter than me and had to tape bottom of legs to boots to stop it riding up.will have another go weekend.

Went to inspect the hive I have in works garden after work tonight with the intention of taking off supers and splitting this hive into two nucs,so set about removing two of the supers which I used beequick to do, there were two more supers on one which was not capped and one they were drawing...

very funny hivemaker:icon_204-2: i meant strain.

what would be a nice gentle stain to go for.

Hi, everyone I have one very aggressive colony at my works garden.they are collecting honey very well and have been filling a super a week. But they are very aggressive once you open the hive,bees flying straight to your face pinging off the veil and following for 25 meters and not giving up the...

got lots of this knotweed at work where i keep a hive and they are all over it.have read bees get nectar from the flowers.as for what it is like i don't know.nor do i know what any of the honey my bees collect tastes like,:drool5:another bad year may get a couple of jars, roll on next year.

someone on the forum had link to a free book on plants that a beneficial to honey bees.but can't find where it was from my browser history anyone point me in right direction.

hi all, can anyone recommend any books on trees and plants that are beneficial to honey bees, preferably new print with good colour photos.

by my way of thinking you either have prime swarm which would have a mated Queen or a cast which would have a virgin Queen.no need to be grafting in Queen cells. give them some tine to settle in then see whats happening.

good to have you back ,I have missed reading your posts.

nearly got caught out myself.went to check on my hives on Friday only to be greeted by at least 8 Queen cells some sealed a couple open, thought they had enough to be getting on with in regards to the two supers I had left them.knocked down the sealed ones left the 2 open ones. managed to find...

almost perfect spelling on that F word Fiman but i fear you may of dropped the g from the end of the word.

stick around shirley turns up quite often.

he use to get 48 to the gallon(miles that is not hives smoked).a great tail of woe from last year.