Recent content by Langstroth

Ericalfbee, You need to get that chic back in the nest or to a raptor rehab centre with experienced staff asap. If you hand feed it you will start to imprint it, also if you wait untill saturday the parents are unlikely to accept it. Dehydration is also a vey real danger for a young bird of...

oliver90owner, there you go again, terse and insulting. Your obnoxious attitude is prevelant in almost every post you put up, and to be fair, its not just you. Maybe Cedar has thought about the problem at hand and has a rough plan of action, maybe not. A simple helpful answer is all thats...

Enrico, to be honest your answer was one of the better ones. As to you, oliver90owner, there is a way of communicating with people that is helpful and a way which is not. If this person was in the same room as you and asked your advice face to face I can garrentee that you would give a fully...

Why has nearly every relpy to this thread been terse or antagonistic? The person has asked a simple question and really doesn't deserve the flak for getting the definition of 'BIAS' slightly wrong. If you still have the queen and capped cells then they could be thinking of supersedure rather...

Re-queen asap. I have had chalk brood in a couple of colonies. It appeared after moving them to a new site and it disapeared after requeening.

I have colonies for sale on plastic langstroth deep frames. They are in Modern Beekeeping Poly hives (including roof, floor & Brood box), double and single brood boxes depending on the colony. Single Brood Box colony £190, Double Brood Box colony £230. If you are interested please call...

It just amazes me the way some people post without thinking! Due to the terrible weather last year alot of farmers struggled to get rape in and had to plant late or whenever they could this spring. If you take even a casual glance around large parts of the countryside you can see rape fields in...

I think it really depends on the individual hive. I strim around mine as late in the evening as possible, preferably with a bit of light rain or wind thrown in for good measure. I always wear a bee suit while strimming just for the odd hive who don't like it but most of mine never even bother to...

I have tried straight 2:1 sugar syrup, thymol infused 2:1 sugar syrup and bakers fondant in 12.5 kg blocks. The fondant gives me the best results by far. I can slap 12.5 kg of feed on them in late september/early october (or even later if neeed be) and they can either store it or eat it straight...

Persoanlly, I don't think it really makes a great deal of difference if you put the brood box above or below the existing one. You will get people telling you that you must put it below or above for a variety of reasons but from what I have seen the bees will adapt equally well. When I add an...

When I registered with Environmental Health and had my interview I was braced for an absolute grilling, but the whole experience was fine. The chap cared not a jot that we had tiles on the floor and said that one sink was perfectly adequate. Honey is a low risk food stuff and a clean, tidy...

I started putting frames together with pins and a hammer and after about the 10th one i thought, to hell with this and went straight to screwfix and bought the tacwise naier/stapler, excellent piece of kit. 400 plus frames and a number of nuc boxes, roofs, floors ect later i dont think I could...

Honestly, dont worry about taking any special precautions when moving them 11 miles, open mesh floors will be fine. I move my hives around quite alot and only bother with the travel screens if doing more than an hours driving.

When if find them, they get clipped. Simple. You know she cant go anywhere, is readily identified as a known queen and as far as i can tell gives her absolutly zero discomfort. If i am going through a hive and find an unclipped queen I clip both wings simultaniously whilst she is on the comb, i...

Read the method I have posted. In what part does it say to put all the boxes back together? A shook swarm is when the queen and all the bees are totally seperated from the brood, ie by being shaken into a completely new box full of foundation only. By giving the queen brood it is by definition...