Recent content by simonf

I have a colony with white eye drones, quite a lot

As usual the bees neglected to read the books and burrowed under the cage

I have introduced a queen using this method just last week, I made the small nuc up and placed the queen in the same night, I placed the queen in a mesh push in cage (home made) over emerging bees with a patch of honey, so in the corner of a frame, 4 days later she was running about in the cage...

I’ve just ordered the principles of bee improvement, hoping for some good pointers

Check your PM mr. ian

Something similar happened to me during my last inspection, the girls were a bit tetchy and were bumping my legs, due to lack of food and rather cloudy conditions removed a super and just finished inspecting the BB and looked down, my jeans were covered in bee's and to my horror my zip on my...

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I started with the leather and have moved on to rubber, next stop nitrile/ latex, leather was never very comfortable

Started putting together some nucs I have been cutting, watched some scout bees checking some of my spares out.

Cut wood for 9 nucs, watched the girls coming and going in my garden bringing in lots of pollen, took off the mouse guards resisted the urge to have a look in, next weekend I think.

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I know that some posters on this forum are into beekeeping in a big way, and it is a business to them ie, hive makers queen sellers etc, I would like to know who does what, so I wouldn't mind if they had a link in there posts that would take me to there web page.

I to was on the BBKA swarm collectors list last year, collected 3 swarms and really enjoyed it, I have expressed my willingness as I did last year to collect swarms with my local association but have not been nominated as a collector.

Looks good, any chance of a few more pics, inside, are the frames cut down super frames, looks like you have been very busy these dark nights:smash:

Had a one up a very tall tree, no chance any ladder would of got to it so I put spare hive under it and a day later swarm housed