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is it definately from OSR? Not doubting you but yesterday i learned that theres a chance we may not get a proper flow from osr as its got to be at least 20 degrees for this to happen you have now given me hope

as hivemaker said, no!! reason being is bees at this time of year will be hopefully bringing nectar in to make honey. Adding thymol to syrup which bees are feeding on will cause the honey and empty frames to become tainted with thymol. not good, the stuff stinks!!

i would hazzard a guess and say that most that will be because of bees, larvea and pollen what the temps been like around your way

I wouldnt hold out too much mate, this weather is stopping the nectar from rising within the rape, so unless we get temps of 20 degrees withing the 3 or 4 week total flowering period, we wont get any honey!! we will still get pollen though

Chris, please feel free to reply again as you will have hit your 1000 postnot worthynot worthy anyway, so my bees have been on the rape since it came into flower 2 weeks ago. So therefore I have approx 2 weeks, maybe less for the bees to get some nectar from it and this will only happen if the...

Well ive just been reading clive de bruyn's practicle beekeeping it says for every hectare of rape, 100-500kgs of nectar will be produced and vastly underestimated by beekeepers. It also says that OSR flowers for 25 to 30 days. so does that mean once the flowers appear, if the temperature...

Hi guys, Im a newbie so please be gentle. After reading how qucik the bees use osr, ive moved my hives to a field full of the stuff and there also alot more of it within half a mile or so of them. im suprised however on inspection today that there is hardly any OSR pollen on the frames. I...

if no-one asked questions, no one would learn anything!! that goes for everything, not just beekeeping what boring world we would live in if everyone said, why do you want to know that?? it just does!!! I hope the OP gets an answer, i too am intrigued

cant wait to see the replies from this!! some things i agree with him on and some i dont!! whats the point in regulating something if we dont need them. surely is doenst matter then if they survive or not sad way to look at things

Pete, yer cant tell us you picked them up for a song and not tell us how much they actually were!! come on, tell us, we all want to know

are all you swarm collector members of bbka?? just woundering as im egarly waiting for some phone calls or 2 for swarm collection. I want more hives so need more bees lol how do people get your contact number??

im a relative newb and I hope this is not a daft question but if the brood is covered by a layer of wax, how do the bees know that it is somehow deformed and should be discarded?? TIN HAT maybe???

Hi guys, Been putting frames together ready for the big flow of OSR. Anyway, i have made up some self spacing brood frames (DN4 i think) as well as some not self spacing super frames (SN1??) As the super frames are not self spacing, ive put some catellatd spacers in the super. When the frames...

was it the one were the OP was complaining about getting ripped off by weald farm??

Hi guys, I been up to see the farmer today regarding putting my hives on his OSR I have been give the OKnot worthynot worthy Now i only started beekeeping last year and have heard how quickly a colony can grow when put on OSR. so im just looking for general advice and anything thats going to...

Hi, I do a bit of shooting for a local farmer and his brother. Im in a bit of a dilema!! Im going to ask both farmers can i put a couple of hive on there land. One farmer does not have any rape on his land but there is a field thats directly south that has rape on it. This area i feel i more...

Thanx guys, I will report back next week couple of questions though, what will happen to a drone egg thats been fed on royal jelly just like a queen does. Obviously its not goin to change sex but do we get a super drone lol

Hi guys, Im still very new to beekeeping but whilst inspecting my hive again today I couldnt work out whats goin on. I had a queen in this hive that i marked from a swarm i gathered last year. Last week i could not find her. There was no capped brood and i struggled to find any eggs but...

I have them on my shed roof which is only 15m from my house. ive not had any trouble with them but this year, i want to move them as they are now getting a little close for comfort. They used to fly out of the hive and go over the houses at the back of me so didnt cause anyone any bother this...

thanx rosti, Totally under what your saying about it being too early but I just want to make sure the swarms i collected last year had made it through the winter and have enough stores. The other 2 swarms i have are fine, queen spotted and they are laying well. Just this particular colony that...