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I wish i didn't have to cram them in but I've a massive backlog to clear before i can get the mead in there.

This is it with the bulbs for heating.

Ahh. Great thanks. That's what I'm after. I think i will probably need 120w to do the job? I doubt 60w will be enough?

Hi folks. I have a stand up freezer that i have converted to a warning cabinet. I have always used the old 60w incandescent bulbs to heat it. It appears that they are not available to buy anymore except on line. So i bought 3 for £14.99 !!! Which is bad enough but then they decided to blow one...

Yes some of them had the white HB pollen on them. But not all of them. I'm not sure that it gives much nectar other wise the brood boxes would be packed out by now, what with the hot weather we've been having. Something must have been getting them out of bed early though! Perhaps it's just the...

I was out at half light at 6 o'clock this morning and was surprised at the noise from my bees. They were in full work mode. It made me wonder what they might be working on. Does HB produce a lot first thing maybe?

Last year i bought a couple of small dehumidifiers online, i think about £30 each. I had such a small crop compared to usual that I wanted to harvest all the uncapped honey instead of giving it back to the bees. I Put a dehumidifier in the middle of a stack of suppers. It worked a treat. They...

Cool. Sounds easy. 😁

Sorry that was the ratio rather than the volume i Meant . Say 20 gallons. Hot water, put pump in, then add sugar? Dump in sugar and walk away or stand there slowly pouring it in as it dissolves?

Does this work when mixing 1kg sugar to 1pint water? Does it need to be heated?

Does treating them with acetic acid before storing them either wet or dry not keep them free from waxmoth. And also any Nosema spores?

It's not easy to make a pheromone. 😁

If i was a kid the fact that honey bees have 5 eyes would be brilliant. I still think it's brilliant and I'm a long time away from being a kid!

If you run brood and a half then instead of having to check through all the frames, as you do with brood only,you simply split the two boxes and look under the top box . The theory being that if they are making QC's they will be on the bottom of the frames. So it is actually less work!

Golf --- a good walk--- spoiled!

Well done NRW!(national resources Wales ie. forestry comm.) Wouldn,t it be a great thing to be able to put hives in the forest? Either for the wild flowers, honeydew or access to the heather? I think that there's a change going on over the years to recognise the assets that are in our...

If you take the above method but approach it differently. Put 2 frames of brood with eggs in a new brood box with empty frames,on origional site. Move parent colony to new position at least 3 feet away. Job done! Correct me if I'm wrong.

There is a great series of films on youtube about skep beekeeping in eastern europe. type in 'heather skep beekeeping" It,s fascinating and the old boy is a pleasure to watch. It shows how good natured bees can be too! '

Yep. I just did this 2 posts up!

Try your local scrapyard for aluminium sheet from caravans or whatever.