Recent content by Honeybeeco

That's so true. I have a beekeeper friend whom goes to visit family a few times a year and tells me about SA beekeeper tails. We still have some of my grandads pine hives that were creosoted over 40 years ago and are still going ( and we've never touched them ). Infact I think most bee keepers...

:iagree: Good idea Enrico. I've tried that a couple of times and your right.

I wish I could say different but I've never had any success moving our hives a short distance like you mention. I've tried everything from locking them up, waiting till it snowed and they didn't fly for 10 days, I've also tried sticks, planks of wood and a few other obsticals In front of the...

Could it simply be they are a little hungry? I know that between the flowering periods thought out the year, bees sometimes get a little stroppy. Also have they still got a queen, as a hive without a queen gets upset as well. I've may be unlucky but I've not found a breed of bee that's 100%...

Well Done, that's a great article and nice to see a picture of my home town. It's going to be interesting to know there is something hidden up there above my head, whenever I go back home. Thank you for showing us that. Andy. bee-smillie

Looks like burr comb in first picture ( working left to right ) and play cup in the other picture - assuming it's the same play cup in both pictures. They can make lots of these play cups on frames, but what you need to do is when you go in there next, have a look if there is a grub and white...

Perhaps it might be worth contacting Mannlake to ask them if that shipping rate correct as it might be a glitch in their webshop that they don't know about and thus it doesn't charge correctly for small postable items or perhaps the weight of the superboosts has been entered incorrectly and thus...

The weather has been so bad up here so far this year that we've only been able to open the hives twice this year to do our inspections, and also the bees flying days are very few and far between. We've also noticed when they do fly that the amount of pollen being brought is very low, as local...

We use Ultrabee patties bought in pre made in quantaties during Mannlake UK's special offers through the year, but we also buy buckets of ultrabee powder from Mannlake UK and do the same mix as MP, and they do like it. We have also bought some buckets of Beepro from them this year in the sale...

Thanks for the heads up and I do appreciate that, but your right, my hives are National 14x12 but long as they take 22 frames in one long open box with a removable centre board, so like having 2 brood boxes side by side. They still use stand off the shelf 14x12 frames so not to be confused with...

Have you visited the abelo bee guys and had a look at their poly hives. I saw them at the Harper convention last week and I like them. They are not cheap but the outside and internals sizes are national hives and thus look the best when using a poly and wood hive combo, and also all the joint...

Firstly - None of this is not a beginners faulty. It does go on more than you think, and that's mine and JBM's point - its not a good means of varroa treatment ( and should never be taught as so ) and its not even a good means of identifying the quantities of varroa in a hive, yet go to any...

That's a really good point to raise JBM, and one many people need to think about and evaluate. It's surprising how ideas change within the bee fraternity as I hear the killing of drones for varroa treatment mentioned a lot at the club meetings and it's surprising how many just follow that idea...

Yes I saw the same. Have look at 45 seconds, just below the middle of the screen, a bee with bad DWV, walks down and to the right. Shame she hasn't done a video of her treating her hive - or has she, as I'm too scared to look at any more of her videos. Is she a new beekeeper, as she perhaps...

My mixture of 18 tablets a day - including all those quoted on this thread, have not seemed to make my stings increase in any affects compaired to someone not taking all the medication mentioned. That all said, working bees daily during the season and thus getting stung a lot, might also be a...