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i have british black bees so should be ok, they work even when its frosty

ok thanks, well the fact that you saw heather and gorse in flower is encouraging. i just like keeping bees, i dont keep them just for honey but to help everything, so if there is some food source around there, i dont mind feeding them for the sparse times

Hi, i could be moving from the east midlands to Scotland this summer. The area where im moving to is between Edinburgh and Cumbria, and is just countryside with forestry commission plantations and farm fields, and there is some wild areas but dont know yet if there is bracken ect there. i am...

Thankyou to everyone, great help and advice. If you look in books about moving hives, its usually about moving a few yards

Ok , thakyou for that , good to know. Did you take them in a car. I have a estate car, was thinking about sealing up the boot section with poly incase any got out

Not sure yet but i think more likely to be in the second half of the year

Hi everyone, just a quick question/advice seeking, next year i will be moving from the east midlands to the south of Scotland, a trip of around 360 miles. I currently have 3 hives with british black bees. My question is about if they would survive a move of that distance, or wether it would be...

all i know is i bought the queen from a place in cumbria that breeds them. They are very big ,very dark, very well mannered and very hardy. from the little info i can find about them they are the bee that should live here and can tollerate our weather. Im not keeping them to get loads of honey...

both hives were started at the same time , both in the same place and both sets of bees flying off in the same direction. Black bees hove a lot of stores, i have had to feed the italians

Just to say how impressed i am with my first British Black Bees. Even in all the snow we have had they were still active, and today ,(tuesday 30th November) they are flying and returning with pollen, were as my other hive with Italians in shows no sign of activity since it turned cold. Think i...

Hi , i was lucky enough in the late spring to have a large swarm take residence in one of my empty hives i let them settle in for a couple of weeks then opened up the hive. They are very well mannered, but i have never seen bees run around so fast, like they are turbo charged, and there is a lot...

it was an emergency queen that went in beginning of April as I lost my old one in the winter snow, the new one started laying but know has stopped again with the cold wet weather I presume

i do not have another colony to take any from or I would,

is there anyone in the notts area that could spare me 2 or 3 frames of bees to support a weak hive with a new queen last year. If I don't give them some help quick they will die