Recent content by Wattsy

just wanted to say thanks for the advice new queen is released and laying, hopefully this one isn't a drone layer as well

I caught a swarm with a virgin queen in June, lovely calm bees but the queen is duff did an inspection yesterday with no brood almost just some capped drones, no visible eggs or anything. I've ordered a new queen for Saturday just wondering what timescale should I use for killing the old and...

First started planning to get bees 10 years ago when I had my allotment but got put off by what felt like arbitrary rules made up by idiots (having insurance I fully understood but not having a BBKA basic assessment, how can I keep bees for 12 months to get that unless they let me keep bees?)...

Hi is anyone selling 14x12 nucs in Lincolnshire? Cheers Wattsy

they way our armed forces are stretched at the minute we'd be beaten inside 2 weeks