Recent content by keithgrimes

I had a swarm mid september last year, the day I took the hive off the heather

At our association meeting yesterday, one of our experienced members stated that bees could be 'trained' to a water source by adding salt to the water. This is new to me. Any comments? True or balderdash?

I'm in Northumberland and have five strong hives confirmed queenless and broodless. Mated queens seem thin on the ground atm. Can anyone help?

:iagree: same here. I have two colonies on 125 acres of rape and i am feeding them

Retired at 56. Now 62. Best thing i EVER did. If you can eke the money out, my advice is DO IT!! Congrats M Abeuille and welcome

pretty early for this part of the world. Weather has confused everybody (including Apis M). Queen clipped so massive cluster on hive front. Put them back but AS tomorrow weather permitting

I'm reluctant to use any cardboard. A lot of it is chemically treated either with preservative or fire retardant

Dried donkey poo? that's classic. not worthynot worthy By the way, where would you get a dried donkey, and how does it poo?

fed two hives that are sitting in the middle of 125 acres of rape. As one poster said elsewhere 'starving in the midst of plenty'.

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I have had two hives on 125 acres of flowering rape for the last two weeks. I had to feed them today. Not an ounce of stores left and one colony had started ejecting grubs, poor things. Went down just in time. NO foundation drawn at all. This weather is killing the osr nectar flow up here. Got...

That's a lovely apiary.

Thank you fellers. I will leave it untreated to go a 'lovely silvery colour'.

Heard a talk and demo last night on queen rearing using the Horsley Board method. Anyone out there use or used this method? What arre your opinions on it?

Sir Quej. This forum is called the beekeeping forum. Ergo, it is about beekeeping. What you are rattling all our cages with has nothing whatsoever to do with beekeeping. So why don't you just fade away and find a forum called 'people who like to draw attention to themselves by doing something...