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Strimmed under the hives of my main apiary for about 20mins today, the bees didn’t give me much attention but they obviously gave the...

I seem to have luck with bait hives on flat roofs, and that makes them easy enough for me to access. I tend to put out 6 frame poly nucs...

Finally did my first inspection of the year = 16°C and sunny today. All were beautifully calm bees. One colony still a bit small, but...

...... we found this feller quite useful and he makes easily followed videos

I'm a castellations user in my supers. However, when i got my first colony they were on brood frames with plastic spacers. I was put off...

UK castellations aren't that brutal, Hoffmans in the BB for me and 10 or 11 space castellations in the supers.

Simon the Beekeeper Professional.

It will come up again from the smallest scrap of root - I seem to be on an eternal quest to remove it from garden!

Thanks for the advice. I actually have couple of replacement ball bearings I got for my manual extractor. If I'm lucky they'll be the...

No gouts of smoke in my hives - but still smoke in my lungs as the wind blows and the smoker stands off to the side (just in case) not...

Just ordered Thorne's electric heavy duty plastic extractor, so glad to see you recommend it. Until now I've been using a manual 2 frame...

Been busy reorganising the new apiary over the last couple of days. I've now taken over the chicken's area of the garden giving me much...

I bought an Apisolis last year - not just because it's another gadget ;) I'm a teacher, so it feels like I talk non-stop all day long...