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Bees relesed. They seemed reasonably calm. A bunch exited and flew around the hive for 10 mins or so and then went back inside. A few flew off before doing what looked like orienation flights. Hopefully they will prefer their new "home" - we'll see .........

Perforated travel guard on the entrance

Morning shade. some late sun in the afternoon. Shaded also by the branches with foliage.

Moved a hive approx half a mile from original site. Bees have been enclosed for 2 days and a couple of branches placed in front of the entrance to encourage reorientaion when they emerge. I plan to release them tomorrow after three days since a couple of dozen escapees have settled under the...

Mine have spent spring stuffing their frames with stores. They don't need any help from me if they get hungry, they can just pop upstairs.

Split completed thanks to advice. QC (just capped) frame removed to nuc together with 1 of brood and nurse bees and another of stores and nurse bees plus another frame of shaken bees. Nuc made up with foundation and comb. Placed at far end of apiary. Assuming todays is queen's day 9, she should...

Queen is not clipped and the flow is good. Dandelion and blackthorn just finishing and hawthorn and rowan just flowering. Would it be wise to put the qc frame together with brood and stores with a few frames of nurse bees shaken in, into a nuc and monitor it leaving the old queen, with remaining...

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Looked closely but nothing else except some burr comb on the bottom bar.

Today's inspection - QC spotted on bottom bar. Very small, not like last year's swarm cells. Had royal jelly inside but could not see any egg/larvae. Unsure if this is a swarm cell or supercedure as it's about the size of previous supercedure cells. Is there any way of determining or shall I...

I picked up some cheap wireless thermometers from an auction - a base control and three sensors. One sensor on/near the landing board and a second one on top of the perspex crown board but underneath the insulation pad on top. It recorded a differnce of 8-10c between insode and outside the hive...

Thanks all. I'll put them on the next warmish day and ask the bees to keep singing and general drunken behaviour down to a minimum.

Just about to add supers to a couple of hives. The supers have last years frames with some traces of honey. The smell is a bit boozy, possibly the leftover honey fermenting. Is it safe to add then on the assumption the the bees will clean them up before using them or shall I simply dump the...

That's a lot of milk from a lot of cows with a lot of methane produced as well. I'd be worried about lighting my smoker in case the whole country went up in flames.

My grandfather was a cowkeeper in Sheffield in the late 1800s. He kept a couple of cows in a yard near where he lived and milked them daily. Probably the only way city people could get fresh milk. He also developed a talent for converting milk into beer.

Likewise, it was sterilised milk as opposed to pasturised.

Craft shops or stationery stores will usually have actate in various forms. I have a box of A4 plastic folders which have clear fronts - handy for all sorts of jobs.

Not a lot so it seems.

Gelding's a swifter and more permanent option. Could make lifting heavy supers easier too.