Recent content by crateman

All gone.

Given up beekeeping, now have lots of bits to sell. All National parts, used but in good condition. All used woodwork scorched out and ready to go. In South Leicestershire, contact by Private Message please. Collection only 4 roofs, shallow 3 queen excluders, Wire with frame, 1 wire unframed...

All colonies now sold

After 20 years of beekeeping, my wife and I are selling up. We have retired and plan to travel, and will not be able to care for the bees as they need. We have 3 colonies, overwintered with 2021 British hybrid queens, inspected and queen right on 25th March, in cedar nationals. Sold with mesh...

I have 7 spare unused correx nucs, mesh panels at the side, made up and ready to use. Part of 20 yrs of accumulated kit which my wife and I are currently assessing and looking to sell. Along with 3 colonies. We're in Leicestershire and want to do everything by collection though, so if you're in...

All nucs now sold.

I have a few points to add to this thread, the first and most important being that you should DEFINITELY not put the queen in the brood box with the QE between her and the supers with brood. We have done this twice in successive years (some people learn slowly), and both occasions we have lost...

We now have 2 more 5 frame nuc's available. Excellent temperament, National frames, full of healthy, productive bees and brood in all stages. Each has a British hybrid marked queen. We are asking £100 each and £10 deposit on the correx nuc box. Alternatively, we could sell them as full...

Also check for pollen colour, should be a dark grey for Beans. You'll be able to see this just by watching the bees come in. Honey tends to have a bit more caramel flavour than Lime.

Nucs now gone.

We now have another 5 frame national nuc for sale. This time, we have a well mated 2013 queen of good temperament and laying well. The price is £100 plus £10 deposit on the Correx nuc box. Collection only. We hope to have another nuc for sale by this weekend, but we are waiting on proof that...

Probably just Carders, we're getting loads around us (Leices). As posted, they'll go soon enough.

I'm afraid both nucs have now been claimed, but we expect to have more as soon as our colonies are big enough and will be posting again when this happens.

During the very brief warm spell last week, we managed to do an inspection on our 6 hives and found that they have all come through the winter strongly with lots of stores. This was obviously good news, but to be honest, we really only want to start the season with 4. Hence, we have 2 spare. We...

Hi Roboherb, I just sent you a pm.