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Just sit back and read a good book until April

https://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=40942

Bee-equipment sale starts tomorrow

Hi, Received an email from Simon the beekeeper about his promotional foundation offer. It works out that you can purchase 100 deep and 100 shallow for the price of 100 deep from Big T. I know Simon does sell some good Beekeeping equipment but is this price too good to be true, is it beeswax...

Good video. I will be attempting to rear a few queens next year. Only learn if you try.

I use a sack barrow. The lip is a little small but a piece of plywood first to extend the lip then the supers on top. Also I orientate the boxes so the frames run forwards rather than sideways, so when I tip the sack barrow backwards the frames don't move/swing much (don't want the frames to...

not required if they have enough stores and a good population of bees. Keep as separate colonies.

Got a swarm call for honeybees. They took up residence in a smoke shelter, it was just a quick shake job. Then received another call from a lady about honeybees in a bird box and how her elderly mother couldn't use her garden etc. typical sob story. I knew they were more than likely bumblebees...

Sorry, maybe not made myself clear. I have one aggressive hive and two ok nucs. Make one nuc queenless by using HM to replace the aggressive colony queen then unite the two nucs.

Sorry, not sure what you mean. I was thinking of poping the nucleus queen into a cage with candy and then squish the aggressive hives queen and pop the queen with cage in. This will then leave me with a queen right nucleus colony and queenless nuc, then unite the nucs together with newspaper...

Why not vertically combine the two nucs with newspaper in between? That's what ill be doing tomorrow or Saturday. Ill be taking one of the Queens out of a nuc to re-queen another hive who are rather aggressive and then ill combine the two nucs vertically with newspaper in between.

Inspected the garden hive which is on double brood and found quiet a few queen cells, swarming prep well underway. I went through and found four frames with some big queen cells on each and decided to make up two nucs. So I transferred two frames with queen cells into one and the others in the...

Just knocked up 55 super frames in 3 hours. Hoping for a good year :)

Inspected my hives today with it being nice today and the last few days. One hive is very strong, a lot of bees, BIAS with frames of sealed brood and plenty of honey. The other two have plenty of honey too but the queens have only started to lay, a lot of fresh eggs and some sealed brood All...

I make my rooves 170mm high with 100mm of insulation. Good for summer and winter.