Recent content by Les

Hi guys I am at the moment in southern Spain it's about 27c and the Orange/Lemon trees are just starting to blossom, the smell is intoxicating. There are honey bees on the flowers but with so many trees and flowers they got to be literally busy bees :) I suspect you bees would love a holiday...

Now sold - many thanks for the interest.

Complete with P*ynes poly box. Last years unmarked queen with plenty of bias and stores and is ready for transferring into full size hive. Buyer is welcome to come and inspect before purchase or I could meet with Nuc if not too far. Les

I am still open to offers with this and just giving another chance before I put the bees up for sale.

The weather in the UK much too unpredictable to commit to a specific date – it would be better to do the cut out when the weather is suitable.

My situation has changed and I am getting less and less time to tend to my bees. Ideally I don’t want to sell so I was thinking that if someone would like to ‘take them over’ and look after them at my allotment and we could split any honey collected. The benefits for the sharer would be no...

Just thought I get this thread going again as yet again the Great Tits are feeding their young on my bees – from what I can see they are only taking the dead ones so are more than welcome.

Well here goes. This was from a cast collected late June last year. It started off in a 12x14 P*ynes nuc and quarantined in my back garden. It built up and I put it in a dummied down full size box in the middle of September and went into the winter with 8 frames and dummy board. I inspected...

It's a Mountain Ash - been there 25 years.

All I will say at the moment, it is not photo shopped and I will check out the ley line theory :)

Any comments on this swarm pic – I will explain all when we have had a few comments.

It's still early days :)

I had a look through my 6 hives this week and while there was some drone brood I only saw one drone.

Those artichockes should have been in the pan before flowering :)

Only two flowers out on my Victoria plum tree at the moment - no flowers out yet on the cooking plum or on the green gage.