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Hi, are you part of the East Lancs group, if so drop a note onto the facebook page, I’m sure we can help. It’s a pain not being able to do face to face apiary sessions at the moment, the covid local restrictions in Burnley being only a part of the issues. Hopefully we will get going again soon.

Indeed... but I couldn’t bring myself to destroy a full frame of brood...

Having seen the Honey show lecture we trialled the whole frame cage this year on a hive in our club apiary as a demonstration to a reduced audience during COVID. I have to admit I was impressed with the results, despite starting it a little late in the season. This year we should do it a...

Ahh that explains it! Great, thanks

A question for any Chemists out there. Should sublimed apibioxil vapour (oxalic acid) be visible? My Varroa treatments are all done now, and picking up a discussion from another thread about temperatures used to sublimate, this question still perplexes me. I have it in my head that OA...

I have taken all the written papers. Some I found a little infuriating I admit, but on the whole I think they are brilliant. Without the modules I wouldn’t have studied bee anatomy that much, nor pollen for example. The modules pushed me into reading some brilliant text books, especially Cellea...

I once saw a National Honey Show lecture video that was delivered perfectly by the speaker. Unfortunately I’ve not been able to find it again, and I would be grateful if anyone could find it and send the link. The speaker presented studies that had put hives in increasingly cold refrigerators...

It is important to know the differences between the dances, if you happen to be in the brood box. The waggle dance - everything is ok, tremble dance and the head butt stops the dancers. This can be a lack of space or house bees. In order to make the most of available forage if you hear the Buzz...

I use banana boxes from the market to store my recycled frames once the wax has been removed, and frames boiled. They are the perfect size for national brood frames

How are you uncapping? i find anything other than hot air gun is messy, with all manner of things everywhere. I would say I still need to have a deep clean afterwards, but it’s much less than when using a knife etc

Hi Dan, I guess you have already found this by now, but try Manchester beekeepers, based at Heaton Park, they have a great teaching set up there. Not sure what they have done this year, but I imagine they will have courses in the spring, once things settle down

I am looking to go chemical free this year in one of my apiaries by using comb trapping and removal, by using a wire frame commercially available. Does anyone in the North West have practical experience of this, and what time of year did you do it? The NBU leaflet recommends trapping queen...

I use over the door clothes hangers, available from pound shops, supermarkets etc. One way use them or cedar, the other for your arbelo hive. personally I use some plastic ones, but have some is SS, for spare...

In lockdown, Ive been working through the clubs extensive library of beekeeping books and came across a book printed in 1977. The author Ray Hill created a small book titled Propolis. It mentions what we all know about propolis tinctures reduce throat inflammation, not wishing to join the fake...

It is difficult to understand completely the scenario, without being there with you, bit how about the scenario where a virgin queen somehow got above the QE, and has not been able to get out and mate, so is now laying drones.

Over door hangers I find these things really handy. They are over door hangers. Clip onto the wall of the hive to hang the frame you have taken out when inspecting...

I too had a zero result. Does anyone know the significance of that, is it an error in the analysis or the sample I supplied? I guess other explanations could be that the sample contains no pollen, unlikely as I tend to only give a little feed in the spring, or that pollen detected is not in...

East lancs are selling theirs from their training apiary at offshoots based at Townley hall

I understand that stuffing an undrawn frame in the middle of the brood nest can push the half without the queen to start preparing for queen cells...it does sound like you supered too soon and it's possibly too late to sort it out now, so fingers crossed!