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Depending on the weather I'll do my first proper inspection tomorrow or Saturday. Driving down from Derbyshire to London area over the past week, and along the M1 corridor OSR is in good flower, most fields are around 80% in flower around M25. From watching my 2 Hives over last weekend I have...

Very true, probably worth thinking about the planet when buying a Poly hive that will be in landfill for the next 300 years than when having a bit of leg over for conceiving a child.

Congratulation, I can’t think of anything better than a big family and a house full of kids, I started late so stick at 2, but 7 sounds perfect.

I didn't because it was a bit of a faff, putting the whole suit on just to whip the roof off to look at the fondant level. It was a overcast day with not many Bee's flying, so I anticipated no problems, I know my Bee's can't access the eke space and roof, so whip off the roof, check and if they...

I wonder if its the time of year and the fact that weather is a bit changeable and also no food really flowing in makes them a bit uppity. I’ve been stung once about 6 weeks ago trying to see if they needed more fondant, didn’t even get the roof off and took one just below the eye, which was a...

Do something really specialised like Beehive Joints from 1879 to 1913. Can’t beat a good talk about something really obscure.

That makes sense, they are on 14x12 and in winter I think you're spot on. I'll try and remove any other larvae on the next inspection.

Thank you. They're showing 3 or 4 lines of potential brood work and 2 lines of food from what I can see from the floor capping.

Thank you for your advice. I think the colony is good and healthy from outside observation.

Love Dalwhinnie a bit too much.

The weather set fine all week, it's still just my opinion that its still too cold at night time, towards the end of the week its looking like 6 / 7 degrees at night. Maybe next week.

I'd appreciate a bit of help with this little fella. I've had floors on both my hives over the past 5 days to check varroa drop. on the final day on just one hive I found this, it Amy have been dead, it didn't move or wriggle about. Is it wax moth? also if it's a problem, how to I treat the hive?

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Bringing home the bacon this morning. Fondant nearly gone in both my hives, I’m assuming if the weather stays ok, then let them finish it and don’t then replace with anymore. It’s been on 8 weeks, so not exactly wolfing it down like teenagers. Also as this is my first time overwintering Bee’s...

Had a couple of floors on yesterday and for the rest of the week to check on varroa, the lad spotted the pollen that had dropped of the girls, so we both had a little taste. Both my little ones wolfed it down. It is rather tasty!

In don’t; know why but it seems to me most people on here want the Beetradex show to fail, As a CEO of a family owned business I’d have been happy to put on such an event at the weekend, just months after the end of covid restrictions and all the uncertainty that has bought about. Everyone has...

I did enjoy it, always good to see what’s on offer. I was tempted to switch my 2 14x12 to a clone of WBC with buying some lifts, but prudence took over. I queued for about 45 minutes to pay for x2 hive tools and 4 mouse guards, but had a good chat with various fellow beekeepers whilst waiting. I...

Not in the Apiary, but today I went to Beetradex and had a great time, saved a huge amount of cash on amazing offers. Knowing now what this event is like and the offers the exhibitors have I think it will save a lot of money slipping the Thornes sales and just getting everything I need from this...

They might live in a terrace.

So smoked haddock we have poached in milk and eaten with plenty of mash and pea's. The Arbroath Smokies I get are like you say, whole fish, even with smoked thick twine around them. These we have for breakfast with toast, when available and depending on cost, they are expensive.