Recent content by Smudger55

Hi , totally bamboozeld, I had a swarm move into a bait hive three days ago , and just now another swarm has now moved into the same bait hive , I have never had this happen in all my years beekeeping ,,,,, Al I can say is wow…..

Then don’t ,sing to them 👍😁

That’s what I was on about , best of luck to him 👍

Many thanks , has he got it up and running yet ?

Hi just a thought , does anyone know on here if anyone has took over Ricky Wilson’s apiary…. ( was just thinking about him ) 👍

do you mean put the caged queen (in cage) straight in after taking out old queen ( how long then till breaking off tab ?

tell me about it 😂

I am looking for two nucs of bees in wales for a charity that I am volunteering to help set up , so we are looking for two nucs to star off ,,,,👍

Many thanks all I will be purchasing Dipel …

Where do I get this from as I can not find it 👍

What do people do/ use to stop wax moth destroying their stored comb( no I haven’t got a big freezer or place to put one 👍) . I am fed up of the the little blighters…..

I need to change the amount of hives , I only have two at the moment due to an injury last year . So I did not want to many colony’s last year …thanks for reminding me….

Hi , I will be looking for two nucs , they are for a halfway house( charity led ) for recovering alcoholics and drug addiction, I was a heroin addict myself for twenty years, so I want to give back , they want an apiary as they can see the therapeutic side to it . It is based in Ammanford...

Hi , what is opc?