Recent content by gill68

thanks for that folks. That gives me a figure to get to him with.

I have built up a reasonable amount of clean beeswax , and have to admit that I will probably never get around to making candles ( and there's only so many candles you can use!) and I still have the last batch of furniture polish hanging around as noone I know seems to use polish. I have found...

Let me know if you come across any! I've been looking for some with no success. I really don't want to change everything over to a different size. Good luck.

sadly if there is a laying queen in there, they're not likely to move. Sorry to have a downer on your plan!

thanks folks for the advice. It doesn't sound too bad; I think maybe even I could manage that!

I have just bought an steam wax extractor( I know i could have made one but I'm just not very 'handy) but I need a solid wooden floor to be able to use it, and I got rid of mine before the last move, as myself, like most people use the varroa floors. Does anyone have one that I can buy from...

I thought they'd have come out of hibernation by now?

has anyone any experience of this? I managed to do my first very thorough inspection of my hives over the last couple of days and , out of 6 hives, 4 had a queen wasp sitting on the bottom of the hive. One was dead, but the colony was also queenless , so I don't know whether the wasp was...

dorset honey Hi Noel, sorry i haven't looked on the forum for a while as I have moved down to cornwall into a house that needs rather a lot of work and have been a bit preoccupied. My bees are still up on Purbeck heathland until i move them in the spring and , rather inconveniently, chose this...

lots of sympathy from me too; it's horrid. I had a similar experience last year when they got in where the 2 zips overlap at the back of the suit. The overlapping velcro wasn't quite sat correctly and the little blighters got in; loads of them; lots of stings around my ear. i went straight to...

Hi Richard, Do you still have the TBH? I'm heading up to Southampton on Monday morning if that's any good? I take it it's empty? Gill

lesson learned; I just thought they were fine if they had at least one super to go into. I was a bit wary of giving too many supers as the bees are in an area for heather and I will have to remove whatever is on there before it starts flowering ( so as not to mix honeys) and I didn't want a load...

that's what i thought about, once I got home. They did have a commercial brood box and still one super, so I thought there would have been enough but there were a lot of bees in there last time I looked,which was 9 May. They had a load of new foundation to draw out too and most of the nurse bees...

I went to take a couple of supers from my bees yesterday that I had put clearer boards on the day before ( Friday) and found a group of bees clustering just above the entrance. There were also a load of dead/dying bees under and around the hive, which makes me think that they had been there...

I did a small 'sampler' for us to try and it's worked a treat; just the right consistency, so s huge thanks for your help Denise and 'foxylad'!