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They are in a tree with a trunk about 2 1/2 feet in diameter. There is no room to put anything above the entrance to try a trap out without removing branches. The tree was pollarded so the new growth is random. I do not have a chain saw or the licenses to use one. I cannot close the road or the...

I already have. I deliver training at the local association which he is not a member of. His comment on my first visit said it all " I just want them to f*** off " Each of his 3 hives has swarmed multiple times so far he watched 2 swarms go north a few weeks ago. Currently I have a bait hive in...

Today I have been trying to deal with the council. Over the last week there has been 5 swarms in our village all from one bee owner, I have collected 4 ( one from his own garden) but the 5th has taken up residence in a tree owned by the council. These bees are vile, if you make the mistake of...

Most of the Buckfast queens have some or all genetics from a European source now. Either imported and then bred from by someone in the UK using II or genetic material is shared. The Europeans have the benefit of island mating in their favour, something the UK doesn't have access to. There are a...

Had to fill 15 3 frame nucs today (no choice got to be done), weather was horrible bees were queenless and not happy about being messed around with in the rain. I wasn't happy about being out in the rain either. Then had to put 15 queen cells in the nucs. All made easier by the the 5 miles...

By the same logic If i feed sugar syrup only into the brood box it won't end up in supers. Bees never move stores up at all do they ? Naive at best. You're not the first to waffle about icing sugar it's been going around for decades and been shown to be ineffective by multiple research papers...

I've used OA sublimation for years. Queens don't go off lay. No adverse effect on bees. No adverse effect on larvae. If you have no common sense it will have an adverse effect on you. You are creating a cloud of acid crystals if you don't treat it with respect it will make you treat it with...

Icing sugar belongs on a cake not in a beehive. it isn't a recognised or licensed varroa treatment. It damages larvae that come into contact with it. It's sugar it ends up in honey as sucrose.

Where to start. Got 15 colonies in an apiary I cannot get to atm due to flooding. Been like it for weeks. Had to bite the bullet and deal with it today. The job had not been made easier by the foot deep tractor ruts in the track full of water. Got 2 inspections done from one end and a hive at...

I send this to beginners in our association.

It doesn't evaporate well from a bowl. I use some pads that were for formic acid treatments.

Workers will move drone eggs up into supers if there isn't space in the brood box.

Nowt it's peeing it down.

Workers sometimes clear some wax from the tip of the cell it's called crowning. Queens can easily manage to release themselves without any help.

If the brood in the supers is drone the workers put it there.

If you chill a queen cell at the time the wings are forming then you will end up with malformed wings.

If there is a lot of phoretic varroa the drop will be large. If there aren't many varroa or they are protected the drop will be small.

There are different levels of hygiene. Hive level. Apiary level. Own colony level. And none. Hive level is basically nothing goes into or onto the hive other than what has come from it, supers and all other kit is kept for that hive and hive tool and gloves are cleaned or replaced between all...

Maybe contact the Bee Farmers Association.

I've had it where they bees have hidden a queen cell in the middle of a clump of drone cells in brace comb with just the tip showing. Also seem queen cells built from the crownboard and on the sides of the hive. Crafty little gits sometimes.