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Underfed short fat ones ! :biggrinjester:

i think this has evolved ... whilst they do have some attributes in keeping the beekeeping community together as, largely, a single voice (and I accept that they have little to offer beefarmers) they do seem to be set in their ways in some respects. Beekeeping has always been slow to move...

Sell the Westley and buy her a set of totally unbreakable kitchen tat ! (Some Westleys are the price of a small car these days - you should have some change !). Today, a wood pigeon decided that it would see off the competition it saw reflected in the glass in the side door to my garage ...

One wonders at the logic of this ... Do the purveyors of Api-bioxal know nothing about the life cycle of the varroa mite and the interaction with their host species ?

We met initially coming in last year ! But .. the restaurant would be a good place and those two lectures are ones I wanted to see so 11am is a good time. NIgel Semmence is our former RBI - I did my bee disease course with him, he's good - I'm also interested in the lecture at 4pm .. No...

No problem ...I have a jar or two of the best honey on the planet !

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Even taking the honey off has to be a decision based on local conditions .. and whilst you can set a date in your mind, in advance, the reality is that you have to be prepared to be flexible. Our season down here on the South Coast - particularly in semi-urban locations is getting longer - it...

Steady folks .. you are playing in the beginners section here - you know the rules ...

When I was swapping out frames two of mine had virtually no capped brood but a frame and a half of eggs and larvae .. I wondered about this situation - but that makes sense.

You can upscale yours when you need to ... https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/cappings-bucket.48558/

They just love remodelling wax .. I put some broken bits of comb with honey in it in rapid feeder - they cleaned the honey out and then went berserk joining up the comb and building it into something extraordinary.

Because that's what the BBKA seem to recommend !! Good job they don't look at my hives - I've just rotated out some brood frames that had 2015 written on them .. I think they had got to the stage where the even the bees didn't want to use them as they were at the outer edges of the hive and...

If there has been no disease in the colonies then you would be fairly safe giving the comb back to the bees to clean out. You could cut the honey filled comb out and put it in a rapid feeder with the cone removed - they will clean it out very quickly but - beware - as soon as they have taken...

There's not much information available about the distribution of Amitraz resistant varroa in the UK ...most of the studies have been abroad or local ones in the UK but there is evidence that mites are becoming resistant to it where there are concentrations of beekeepers and the treatment strips...

Probably is working - Apivar is Amitraz based so it's not temperature dependent and you leave the strips in for 10 weeks in an autumn treatment. There should be a fairly consistent drop for the first couple of weeks after you put the strips in and it should then tail off as the brood cycles go...

Just curious ... why would queen age have anything to do with influencing the Drone Eviction Committee ? I would think the bigger the colony the more chance of drones being evicted .. more mouths to feed and more workers to assist with the evictionn orders ..

Beautiful .. probably a queen looking for a winter home ... it's a wonder he didn't wack it and kill it - clearly the bloke was a DFFL... Down from ...F ... London ! Perhaps Somerset Live might have taken the opportunity to post one of the identification posters available ?

I hadn't taken my all honey off at that stage so there were lots of stores .. more likely to be the availabiity of forage than stores.

Yes ... they were being kicked out of my colonies in that cold snap second week of September .. I can't decide whether it's weather or lack of forage that prompts them to dump the drones .. probably a bit of both.