Recent content by ultreen1

You will get it one day... Hundreds of wasps in my shed, chewing through my wooden boxes to get to the combs inside, that's a pest! A nuisance! My bees, FYI, are fine against wasps...it's my shed they seem obsessed with not my colonies! The wasps in my shed are all after the last bits of...

Agree or not I did it...guilty! Yep horrible! I killed a group of wasps instantly! Maybe I should have left them finish out their season in whatever prolonged manner nature decides! If I get the same amount of wasps in my shed next year I will do exactly the same! I'll just film it for Karol...

To get rid of them.

I had loads of wasps grouped together in the corner of my bee shed, I got the blow torch out and quickly blasted them. They seem to have left the shed since Tuesday but I had them everywhere. I would have filmed them for you if I knew. Sorry.

Been flowering for a bit now, some pods already at my out apiary...I helped the grounds keeper pull some up on Tuesday! It's a beast...8ft tall and its everywhere! Much earlier this year tho!

Fill the bucket to the top, make sure the lid touches the honey only slightly. Leave it settle for a few weeks, when you extract remove the lid most of the "scum" is on the lid.

I've just made some, it's cooling right now. I don't have a sugar thermometer so did the cold water test. Hopefully it tuns out ok! If not I've wasted a jar of honey! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just to add to swarms comment, the bees glue/seal the CB down so I've never had water in any of the hives and I mostly use wooden supers with poly broods. And the colour on my blue one is cuprinol shades forget me not blue, the purple is summer damson. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That's one of mine, very close match!

Cuprinol shades? Forget me not blue? Am I correct swarm? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

All this years increases have been from my best buckfast queen so next year will show if they are any different temperament wise. As for yield...great last year, amazing this year! If I buy queens I know where I'll be getting them from. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No, British bred queen from Oxfordshire. Darren

Another thing to add, if there's clouds in the sky my buckfasts can be the worst colony in the apiary to inspect!

More or less same with my one buckfast colony. It'll be interesting to see if her daughters, next year, show the same traits!

This year they seem to be louder but I have a very stressed dog in the house who reacts very badly to the noise so I more tuned in to the bangs! Very upsetting seeing jazz (my papillon) so distressed!