Recent content by Wills666

Hi thanks for the advise, as I said I've only ever moved bees in the spring/summer time, i wait until the evening to move them then so all the flying bees are back, was just thinking if there where any flyers out, but on second thoughts it is probably to cold for them to be out now it's winter...

Morning all, we are moving house soon, both my hive are at the end of our garden, I know to move them at night but do I still need a traveling screen as per the summer or can I just leave the roofs on as the temp is lower now, it will take about 1/2 hour to get to the site. Any advise would be...

hi all just putting this out hear to see what you think. One of my colony swarmed and landed in a tree in my garden, that was a bit of luck is got the swarm and rehived it, I've now have bees around the tree in the same place as the swarm was, what I'm asking are they scout bees or is it that...

Thanks for all your advice, next time I will take a minute to think before doing anything rashly.

Hi all I've been a member on here a while but this is my first post, I've got two 14 x12 hive, this will be my first full year beekeeping started late last year with one hive that supersed then went queenless so not a great start, so requeened and over wintered, my possible big mistake is it...