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Yes Moggett, we would have to seal up the entrance. As we have so many woodpeckers in and around our garden, not to mention bats and owls, I'm sure that someone will adapt it to suit their needs given time. One large hole in the garden is currently hosting a colony of bumblebees, a mouse nest...

Thank you for your message. We received the hive from the makers and assembled it, which was good fun especially as there were no pictures and we had never seen one "in the flesh". It is sitting in the greenhouse at the moment while we think about what to do next. We have been debating as to...

Thanks for the encouragement Steeveetee. I'll give my OH a few words of the same:)

Hello keystone! I joined the forum yesterday. I don't have any bees yet so I am just at the asking silly questions stage at the mo. What is your position? :)

I joined the forum yesterday as a not-yet-hive-owning, complete novice and beginner. I have just spent the last four hours reading this thread. It has been a delight and can honestly say firstly, you are a lovely bunch and secondly, I haven't laughed so much for a very long time.

Thanks. They do suffer from a lot of problems, don't they? My brother has kept them in Australia for almost 40 years and, although I know that they don't have varroa over there, he has never said anything about diseases to me. he has never had to move them from his garden in all that time and I...

Thank you all for your invaluable help. The hive hasn't been delivered to us yet so We still have time to ponder on what to do next. Don't want to make matters worse for anyone. That was the last thing on our minds.

I know what you mean - I wouldn't let my dog or cat just walk about with an open wound but would take it to the vet - but where does that leave my existing colony of inaccessible bees for instance? I can't see their "hive" but from what I see of them in the garden they look happy and healthy...

Hi! When we embarked on this hare-brained scheme we didn't see ourselves as "bee keepers", more as "keepers of bees", if you get my meaning. We thought that if we wandered along to a "bee keepers'" group and said that all we wanted to do was help preserve the planet rather than learn the way of...

Oh, right, thanks for that info. Where would I be able to find a package of bees? Do I just Google? Are they the sort of thing that can be posted or would I have to go and collect them from someone? (Sorry to be such a dimwit)

Thank you all for your kind interest our foolish enterprises! I shall definitely read up about bait hives and hope for the best in the spring. We liked the idea of the Warré hives having been designed originally for people to make from scrap timber and so on. Had planned to have a go ourselves...

Thank you both for your interesting replies. Yes, they are definitely honey bees. My brother keeps them in Australia. I have absolutely nothing against bee keeping at all. I just thought that, having seen them doing their own thing in the roof, that it might be nice to give another lot a home in...

Hi. A couple of summers ago a small swarm of bees arrived in our garden but, as I am not a beekeeper, I took too long to work out what to do with it and the bees found a home in an inaccessible part of our roof. Everyone in our family is very eco-minded so we very happy to leave them there...