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Hello, i understand how a queen is usually mated. How is a bought queen mated?

Hello, i thought i would re-start this post. I built a cage to mount at the front of the hive. The holes are 24mm wide and the bees fly right tjrough but the hornets do not so it stops them getting to the landing board. At this point it is a prototype and we also have hornet traps about that...

Bonjour Castanea, We are North of Pau in the Hautes Pyrénées.

Appreciate the reply Ian.

Hello all. We have a new Dadant hive that was populated from a nuc on the 16th of this month. Today we slid out the varroa board to have a nose. There is a lot of debris under the original 5 frames and wax debris under the others. Our concern is that tnere is also a fair amount of moisture on...

A quick hello all. We moved to Southern France back in 2016 and after renovating a house have now, following my wifes lead, got back into beekeeping. We were very happy with our Warre and Top bar hives in Dorset so will once more go that way now here along with a Dadant to mix things up and see...

Beekeeping for All, Abbe Warre. ISBN 978-1-904846-52-9 Natural Beekeeping with the Warre Hive, a manual. David Heaf. ISBN 978-1-908904-38-6 The Bee Friendly Beekeeper, a sustainable approach. David Heaf. ISBN 978-1-904846-60-4