Recent content by cork beek

:welcome: to the forum e fudd!

I have 1 national hive left (started with these) 1 commercial hive (got from a friend) and the rest are poly hives. All have been ok so far with the strong winds so far, but just in case, i put straps around the poly's and the stand they are on. The stands them selves are on pretty solid...

Same here! wasps hammered one of my hives so much so, that i had to put them in a nuc, there were only 3 frames of bees left! I ended up moving them to another apiary. When i open the hive afterwards, this is what i found... I had wasp traps next to and near the hive but the damage was...

Leave 2 open qcells if there are any. When the virgin queen hatches, given its a nuc, she should kill the other queen still in the cell.

Lost 3 hives over winter (75% of my stock) but luckly i got on to OSR with my remaining hive. Decided to go with double brood as she was a good queen and she didnt let me down, She laid up both brood chambers really well so ive now split them just when she decided to go and swarm, no matter, she...

Put on some fondant, they looked lively (i love my glass crownboard! :) ) even thou it was about 4 degrees outside the hive

Gave some 1:1 syrup and left them at it. Temps over here are at about 10 degrees even thou the weather is crap, it managed to stop from about an hour this morning so i took my chance. Later on today, it cleared up and was a lovely 11/12 degrees for a small while and the weekend is meant to be...

Took away 2 dead hives and gave some frames of honey the the 2 remaining hives. Must clean out the 2 dead hives over the next few days, mice got is and ate some wax. I must also paint them and make a better floor for one of them (the one the mouse got in!)

They now have a Facebook account for anyone interested. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Native-Irish-Honey-Bee-Society/523689337655182?fref=ts

:welcome: Tonyatcwfarm :)

Sorry for your loss Queens59, i know the feeling. Lost my first hives last week aswell

ALWAYS try and have a supply of mated Queens available for when things inevitably go wrong! - which is why im gonna start my own Queen rearing this year! :)

Its an interesting hobby, there is always something going on making me think. Is the Queen laying, if not, why not, if she is, is it a good pattern. Is the hive a nice quiet one or not, What to do with QC’s, make up nuc etc. Putting the supers on and seeing them getting filled up. I also really...

why not buy 1...just the 1 and then when you get it, take all the pictures and measurements you need to make your own from then on :cool:

Im starting to think that he may be