Recent content by RJW

I read on a recent post that it is useful to put the QE on the bottom of the brood box for a few days after hiving a swarm. a daft question: why not leave a qe on permanently on all brood boxes to stop swarming? there must be a reason, ot it would have been suggested before...

thanks to all who replied and gave advice, much appreciated. Requeening tomorrow and no more buying imported Buckfasts!

I have also recently had the same problem. A colony of Buckfast bees, which are renowned for being gentle, have turned into the most aggressive bees I have seen. I get attcked 20 yards away from the hive and I'm covered by the time I have opened it up...bees so thick around the veil i can hardly...

Thank you for the info. Of concern to me is their calmness as I have a year-old Buckfast hive where the new supercedure queen has mated with some agressive stock and the resulting hive is a real pain (literally!). But it would be fun to try a local breed rather than an import...

I'm in Essex, near Saffron Walden...it would be great if your contact could post me a queen!

I would like to establish a colony of Welsh Blacks...does anyone have a spare queen or know where I could get one? Has anyone any experience of them? I hear they are good tempered and productive...