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    Overheated honey options & warming cabinet thermostat

    Try your local butcher too. I sell my bakers honey to ours and he makes delicious honey sausages with it.
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    8 weeks to long winter prep...

    Woodpecker protection!
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    There are times when you know you are being stupid - last night was one of them. Went to association apiary after work to put on clearer boards. Went to light my smoker and discovered my blow torch was out of gas. Mmm, no shops anywhere near, no other form of lighter in my kit . . . oh I'll...
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    No its from Maisy's I think I paid about £37 for it.
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Thanks Madasafish. Pics now attached.
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Rescued bees from a compost bin. I've got some smashing pictures but don't know how to upload them. It is asking for the URL of the image???
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    Snelgrove Board Advice

    I'm having a go at using a Snelgrove board this year. I have just completed the last door opening and shutting manoeuvre which has resulted in the top back door being open and the bottom right door being open. The virgin queen in the top brood box is due to emerge in two days time and...
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    Swarms

    Well I'm absolutely astounded and really quite cross. Phone call this morning from one of our association beekeepers. "There's a swarm in the tree in my garden, quite low down, dangling from a branch. Do you know anybody that might want them or should I just let them go." I asked him very...
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Thank you for all your kind messages. An expensive lesson but one well learned x
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    I'm an idiot. Thought I would try to introduce a queen using a push in cage. Having removed her attendants indoors so that she was on her own I went to put her into the push in cage in the apiary and quick as a flash she found a gap and flew away. I wonder what will happen to her. I'm so...
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    Swarms

    Ha, ha, no just a day in the life of an BKA swarm collection co-ordinator. Actually by the end of the day there had been 7.
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    Swarms

    Gosh today is busy - 5 swarms already, and it's only 1.50pm
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    Thousands of bees in car park

    Yes I was just wandering around in a t shirt the bees were not a bit interested in me
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    Thousands of bees in car park

    Sorry, yes I should have taken a photo.
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    Thousands of bees in car park

    Had a call from Environmental Health today about a car park in town with "bees everywhere." I went to have a look and have never seen anything like it. There is a hedge which I think is an Escallonia that is about 20 meters long and there were literally thousands of bees all around it, around...
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