Recent content by Green Bee

Many thanks for the advice, everyone. The frames with pollen in were pretty old and we left the more recent ones. To our mentors, this seemed like a good opportunity for a clean out, but it seems the bees disagreed. Another learning curve... Remains to be seen if the new Queen has upped her...

In the interests of keeping on good terms with the neighbours, we did move the bees, to a friend's garden. They are thriving there and we have just taken on our 2nd colony. Thanks for the advice. It'll be much less daunting if we have to move them again. :)

Hello :) We've been keeping bees for 2 years and have just bought a 2nd colony from our club apiary. The colony was part of an artificial swarm and our mentors waited until the new Q was in lay before moving her and her bees to our out-apiary. After a couple of days we inspected, removed 3...

Moving hives Hi everyone We have kept a single hive successfully in the back garden for the past 2 years, but new next door neighbours have recently moved in and while they seem quite happy that we keep honeybees, their 5 year old soon is a real wild child (looks and acts like Macaulay Culkin)...

Thank you very much everyone - so helpful, and I'm still find my way around the forum! :thanks: We'll remove the super first thing tomorrow and feed them. The frames are so light at the moment - just full of young bees that don't have enough to eat. Can we give them any of their own stores back...

We are at the end of our first year of bee-keeping and need advice please. We hived a swarm in May 2012. The Queen swarmed in July and we lost them. We re-queened from a local supplier, but the bees knew better and tried to supersede in May. We took down the Queen cells - bad move, but we're...

It's been a crazy week for us new beekeepers in Dorset. Our colony swarmed on roasting Tuesday - our neighbour watched them go, took some photographs, then wondered if maybe he shouldn't be standing quite so close, so picked the cat up & went indoors. We found the bees in the next road over...