Recent content by Welshboyarchrr

You are of course correct. Put down to a beginners mistake. :sorry:not worthy:redface:

If bees have the choice they will naturally select the most suitable eggs/larvae from what is available. As long as you gave them access to young enough brood I would think any queen cells you find on day 4/5 would be viable. They still may not hatch though.

By day 8 all brood should be capped. I have never heard or read of brood being uncapped and reformed to try and make a queen, but someone more experienced may be along to correct me. Bear in mind though that they may have made a queen cell from a 3 day old larvae. 3 days as an egg, 3 days as...

Sublimation is the art of changing from solid to gas without a liquid phase. Sulphur melts at 115 centigrade and boils at 444 degrees, so you would need a pretty hot pan to vaporize it even if it was straight sulphur that you needed. Pedants hat firmly attached, and ducking for cover.

I agree with all the above advice, but it is worth pointing out that if they are queenless, and have no eggs/larvae young enough it will be impossible for them to sort themselves out.

If I am reading this correctly your hive swarmed, and you tried to put them back on the hive they came from? In my understanding they don't usually swarm until at least one queen cell is sealed. Are you confident you found all the queen cells?

You could always try Compak in Bristol.

:winner1st: I think that is the politest "I'm going to ignore you" I've ever read.

Especially as you would expect the migratory bees to be associated with at least 3 of the "high risk" forages.

It'll be honey beer, and melomel.

Day one of my beginners course was really good last weekend. Looking forward to day 2 and hoping the weather is good on Saturday for the apiary visit. I've rebuilt and re-roofed the (free) shed I picked up last week for storing spare bee and beer kit. I've managed to extract the upside down...

More going in than coming out. Fair few Nasonov glands getting a fanning too.

Incomming!

It's all gone quiet.

I'm thinking there may be more than one hive nearby sending out scouts.