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I can't see your other post from this morning anywhere. If you have plenty of screen mesh couldn't you just split the hive up eg brood...

I moved double brood hives + supers a few years ago at this time of year. I was blessed with a cold wet day with no bee flight and no...

Very carefully - it's your back you need to worry about. Have you got a hive barrow ? Ideally you want some means of transporting...

Just use some lemongrass oil.

If you focus on getting stuff like the cavity size, entrance size and suchlike right (I've always had more success with bait hives in...

As comments above, also search for Tom Seeley bait hives and there's a Cornell Univ leaflet with recommendations for size, location...

After the untimely death of legend ( well locally, anyway) beekeeper Ricky Wilson his son Rob has carried on and has queens to sell this...

General minimum for a National hive in season is two DN frames, about 5kg, which is said to be sufficient for a colony for one week...

Why? And this isn't OTT? especially if the administrator hasn't a clue about first aid.

These are on script only. You can’t just have one in your bee box.

A few yeats ago I had some idiot who decided that they would use a hive of mine for target practice with an airgun. I found about half...

I'd hold onto any frames of stores for a few weeks at least. It might be spring like for a few days now but if it turns wet and cool a...

Matt Ridley's article was interesting IMHO, banning one class of pesticide in the hope of limiting pesticide use is not a black and...

Gene editing to develop a virus yellow resistant sugar beet might make a difference. Gene editing of commercial crops is only possible...

That does have honey harvested (vertical strip on the right). Main issue is it only tells you what you found on the last inspection, it...