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Is dandelion on the chart? I don’t see it. That’s got to be yellow pollen…

Moved a hive half a mile to a new site last night when all the bees were in. Stuffed the entrance with a bit of greenery and placed a...

All you need tomorrow is a split board: 460 sq. piece of ply with 8mm rims on both sides, and an entrance in one side. If you haven't...

I think I’ll wait until the start of May and then pinch a frame of eggs from my best colony and give it to the chalk brood colony to...

I would requeen them with hygienic stock. I'm not sure if anything like that is available to you. Are there any UK queen breeders who...

Bees will forage at 11/12C, just that the OSR doesn't produce much if any nectar at that temperature. Tends towards a sliding scale of...

Not for them to forage. For there to be an abundance of nectar. There is some produced at lower temps but it doesn't really 'flow'...

It needs to be 20 celcius for the bees to forage on the OSR? Barely getting to 11 or 12 here at the minute

Went to collect my first prime swarm yesterday. Went through the neighbours hive they came from and removed 38 queen cells.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed then!

1:1 will be perfect at this time of year

1:1

I see your point and I agree. I suppose I was thinking of it like this. The OP has no bees. If a local beekeeper offered him a free nuc...

Chalk due to winter damp disappears in better weather, so yours is likely to be genetic, for which the answer is to re-queen from a...

You can bait your hive as a swarm trap. Try and get an old brood comb off a local beekeeper. Put it in your hive and put your hive...