Recent content by burch

im in northampton near kettering

Hi i may have 2 five frame nucs for sale in the next week or so. both nucs are on standard national frames cost per nuc £125

yes have young brood but not many if any droons so am not holding out that way. would prefer just to get a new queen and introduce her into the hive.

inspected my hive this morning and found my queen walking around with only half her body and no queen cells present. i have needless to say removed her maj and i urgently require a new queen to replace her. is anyone able to help?

my 2 hives seamed to reduce there laying when we had the bad 3 or 4 weeks of weather. i checked the hives a few days ago and found 4 queen cells in one of them with brood in various stages and a few eggs couldnt see the queen tho in either hive and looked like the bees had been back filling the...

where do u get the containers from to place the cut comb into and out of intreast how much do you sell them for.

hi it is still for sale make me an offer

had a stroke of luck tonight. a hive that was queen less and had several capped queen cells last thursday that i left. the first had hatched and torn down a couple of the other cells. i removed the rest bar 1 that was hatching as i was there. i place this one and the complete fram along with...

they were all capped about the same time. i am hoping it has hatched and will mate within the next couple of days with the nice hot weather.

i currently have 3 working hives hopefully soon to be 4 im not far form you jeff and also have been keeping bees for 2 years. are yours kept in the garden

the 1 last queen cell had not been touched in any wayat all. some of the other cells had the caps slightly open and the sides completely gone.there is definatley a decrease in the number of bees in the nuc. i have looked around the area where the nuc is located (on my allotment) and have...

jeff why would you have so many hives if you are new to bee keeping do you not think that this is a bit silly.

i had 4 queen cells in a nuc and when i have inspected 3 of the cells have hatched however the 4th cell is still capped and has not been torn down is this the correct behavour?????

try bikerstaffs when i last looked they had 40 plus queens available from the 4th of july

my question is what normally happens when a queen cell hatches and there have been more than 1 queen cell in the hive. i thought that the virgin queen normally tore down the other queen cells before they hatched. the reason i am asking is i had a nuc with 4 queen cells left in it. 3 of theese...