Recent content by BoothBees

I’ve already sold a jar. 🤩 The other legal info is on a secondary label. (On the back.)

Thank you both.

Brilliant, thank you. I'll pop the entrance open later today.

I've been reading posts on uniting colonies using newspaper and I'm planning to do this, however I have a couple of questions before I do. The two colonies I have in mind are not located near one another, so I'm concerned about foragers getting lost after uniting them. Assuming I move the Q+...

Tonight one of my hives swarmed. I'd previously done an artificial swarm, but they decided to swarm anyway with the newly emerged queen. The good news is that we spotted it on a nearby post, managed to grab and cage the queen, and the bees marched merrily into a nuc. The entrance is currently...

I came to post a similar question, as I used my electric extractor for the first time yesterday and it wanted to waltz around the kitchen. I have the Lyson 20 frame radial extractor.

So I did a thing… 😁 I didn’t know I’d get this far this year. 😁

Why did nobody tell me what a pain in the behind bees are? 🤣 I went to do an inspection at the weekend on 7 colonies, already 1 too many, and now I have 10. Some of the little sods were prepping to swarm, so yet more manipulations done. I only wanted 6 hives. 😆 In good news though, at least 4...

Just a little update. The colonies I bought are doing well. One of them is very strong and we've got a super of honey being capped. It's full as far as I can tell. I wasn't expecting that this year. Another colony is not far behind. We had one colony start swarm preparations late into June...

I love having two hobbies I can combine. Photography and...

Quick update on the Bailey comb change: Both colonies are doing well. The bees are drawing the new frames nicely and there are BIAS in the new brood box, which was great to see. One of the colonies is so strong I wouldn't be surprised to be doing a split or two next year. I've got my other 4...

It's now three weeks since I took delivery of the bees. In that time I've attended a beginner course with my local association and even got my wife on the course with me. She's hooked on bees. That'll make inspections a lot easier! 😆 I took a lot away from it, reinforcing some of what I...

I'm already making a shopping list. 😆 I felt like I at least needed bees before trying to buy more stuff. That box is ticked! The bees are actually quite nice and don't bother us, even when we're close by the hives. It took a while to train our "flinch and waft reflex" away. 😀

We've been very busy. We're now up to 1,140 saplings planted, in additional to our 30 Juniper trees and 30 fruit trees. We've also started some seeds at home and plan to pot up and plant them at some point. We've got runner beans, sweetcorn and potatoes going, as well as a good variety of...

It's been a while since I updated this thread, so here goes... I HAVE BEES! I grabbed some additional last minute nucs that came up available, so the ones I ordered haven't actually arrived yet. (They're from Modern Beekeeping, so I'm not worried about not getting them.) I set myself up...