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Looks good. Pity it's just UK based. A few have been spotted here.

Porca miseria!!! As they say round these parts. Holy crap, in other words!!

We've had it really dry up here as well but the girls have been foraging like nobody's business. Last night they were hanging out on the porch bearding as it was so hot. It rained in the night and has rained on and off all day. Cyclone Circe, apparently. I expect you've had some rain from it by...

I used to make lots of lovely silver jewellery, but since I've moved to the mountains, my workshop is still down at the other house. I still have a few pieces left in my insect collection, a couple of which feature bees, if you might like to have a look...

Looks like I'm sorted bee-smillie

I think what bothered my mentor is the fact that our season is very short up here. By autumn it may be too late to balance out any anomalies. It's unpredictable. We can have summers that last until the end of September, or ones that come to a close with a big bang thunderstorm in the middle of...

Cool! Cheers :)

Yes, I agree. Our mentor wants us to replace these frames with foundation What's that?

We're first year beekeepers and started with a 5 frame nucleus and queen bred by a local beekeeper and our mentor. We live in the Italian Apennines at just under 1200m, so summer, although warm, is quite short, and winter is snowy. The bees are sited in a lush meadow behind the house. We wanted...

The only sting I've ever sustained (up to now, touch wood) was the other day when removing comb from the inside of the inner cover. The girls were furious, of course, and one decided to show me just how much. Fortunately for her and fortunately for me, I caught her before she got her rear end...

I'm really glad you've brought this up as it's something I'm toying with as well. I think I've decided to do a mixture of foundation and foundationless and see how it goes, with the aim of going foundationless. In the future I'd like to move to top bar or Warré hives, so it makes sense to me...

Nice one. Happy waxing! I guess I'll run into a similar problem... Mugello, I know. We're above Fanano, towards the Tuscany border. I can walk up to the ridge and down into Tuscany from where I live :)

Cheers Steve. I've caught up with them in that thread.

Thanks everyone for the welcome. Interesting question! I was reading in another forum that this chap had bees at 1500m altitude and they were still okay. I think they'll be laughing at 1130! At least we're above the horrible smog that hangs over the lowlands of Emilia Romagna. That's far more...

Hi Zante, I'm in the Tosco-Emiliano Apennines. I'm getting my 2 nucs next month. It's nice to see someone else here who's in Italy :) I have 2 10 frame Dadants on order. Out with the beekeepers on Friday, they just transferred the 5 nuc frames into the proper hive and filled up 4 spaces with...

Hi Steve! I'm also getting Dadants. I'm in Italy and completely new to beekeeping :)

Hi everyone and greetings from the Tosco-Emiliano Apennines at 1130metres up, here in Italy. We're due to get our first 2 nucs in the next couple of weeks and begin beekeeping. We are really excited. We're coming to the end of a rather hopeless beekeeping course and had it not been for the...