Recent content by Newbeeneil

It was a full hive that starved. Most of my colonies are so big this year they eat any stores very quickly and with no income in my village apiaries starvation is always a possibility. The nucs I’m due to sell were advertised as 5 frame but I’ll sell them as 6 frame which is all brood. They...

The honey flow in my village is non existent at the moment. I’ve been feeding the nucs I’m about to sell and when I put them in their sale boxes I put thin slabs of fondant in the bottom of the boxes to keep them going until they are sold. After I transferred the nucs I noticed an adjacent...

I'm short of crownboards and roofs so I will wait until next week before I make any just in case I can pick some up cheap.

Yeah, and I didn’t put any hive nails in this year!

If anyone is free next Saturday and short of a few beekeeping requisites I would thoroughly recommend this. 😊 https://sites.create-cdn.net/sitefiles/34/1/9/341959/2024_WSBKA_Auction_Catalogue_-_v1.pdf

I can’t say one single thing I enjoy about playing with bees. I just love everything. I can say what I hate and that is extracting, jarring and labelling!

I had 5 offers in an hour and 25 in a day when I advertised on FB for a site on the edge of a field, wood or big garden, most were unsuitable but about 20%were good.

I did it on Friday. Flat on my face, good job it was only a new super I was carrying and not a live brood box!!!!

If you are going to put a tracker in a hive it would need to be in the brood box where it is inaccessible to thieves. I experimented with a hollowed out bottom rail but my problem was battery life of the tracker.

You will know if they find it as you will have lots of bees with yellow “noses” in your hive. But as JBM says a mile is nothing.

I was rung up last year by a roofer working on a church roof. I expected to be asked to remove bees from under the tiles but he said his guys were getting stung by bees coming from an abandoned hive deep in the undergrowth below the spire. They found the owner who said he didn’t want it so I...

To be honest as Sutty says it’s rather anti social to let swarms pour out of an abandoned hive into a neighbour’s chimney. I think you setting up local bait hives would be seen as a very positive thing.

I think it may be just as slow as I think Roger is on his own as Angus is away this year. I know @pargyle proposed an alternative to the secretary last year which wasn’t acted on.

I realised that several of my advertised “5 frame” nucs will be 6 frame by the times it comes to the auction later this month so I had to knock up a couple of 6 frame travelling boxes.

I assume this was from the BBKA convention.