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Well I just ordered one but its not coming until the 4th to the 12th of September so ill post if its any good when I use it.with the amount of hives I overwinter at some sites a battery one would mean humping multiple batteries around so I've been looking for a gas version for a while but only...

Went up mountain earlier and gave some syrup to all colonies.heathers looking lovely in flower but bees out of stores and nothing going in.weathers terrible and the outlook isn't good.

I had some colonies with it and requeening seems to have sorted it out

Depends on your local council.i have to deal with trading standards and home visits every few years to check food hygiene for selling honey while a mile up the road there's no checks on food hygiene for selling honey under a different borough council

I've seen a few swarms hanging outside hive then disappear.had one on Friday.shook into hive and they all came back out and hung off the front so I gave them a frame of larvae and shook them back in so they're staying in the hive now.

Bell in flower.took eleven hives up early as three of my neighbours aren't happy with constantly being set upon by my bees everytime they're in the garden.just got two carnie hives there now and 25 mini nucs.hope removing the large colonies will sort the neighbour problem out. I think I'll take...

When overwintering kielers I use six frames with a homemade wooden feederboard for fondant or rapid feeder with washing up bowls as deep roof. Works a treat

I now make my broods at 17mm thickness so I don't have to squeeze the twelth frame in.

Sometimes the dead attendants block up the hole for the queen to get out.usually happens on weaker colonies though from what I notice.

Put thousands of brads through one of these and it still works as well as the day I bought it.very few jams and when it does its easy to unjam

You really need to move the hive to another site for a while.

Lovely weather but little nectar going in.bees really aggressive.watched bees on mayflower but that's coming to an end but on a brighter note the blackberry buds are there so hopefully there will only be a short gap this year

I've had a few with non developed wings.temperature at certain point in development I believe.i haven't seen it for a couple of years using incubator. Last batch of 25 cells I lost one queen.fully developed with side of cell open and it wasn't another queen that killed her as they were all caged...

I run mine at 35. between 34 to 36 is fine.try to keep withing a degree.i use an stc 1000 for temp control and that keeps it within half a degree

Started last week but shook an unmarked supersedure queen in while strengthening the top box so no takes.found her Thursday and requeened another hive.grafted yesterday and it looks like 25 takes.made it queenright earlier so hope they keep building cells.last year they stopped drawing them on a...

It could be sacbrood.the larvae in capped cells are brown and slimey when uncapped and then dry into what looks like a Chinese slipper with a black tip

Sacbrood will have brown slime in cells then the larvae dry up

The sawmill in usk is cheap.

Woodford woodturning do some good machinery at reasonable prices and good reviews.thinking of upgrading my tablesaw and theirs take stacked dado blades.I will probably get one later in year as just bought a lyson 20 frame extractor and skint again at the moment.