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will do - pretty sure they are still heavy at the moment but will head up there in a couple of weeks. These are my bees eating the fondant! (if the pics have worked) Thanks for the advice

My bees all tucked up in the hive - the snow has just melted around them today only - I ended up covered in bee c**p tho after I disturbed them treat with oxalic. Great pictures

thanks i will leave off any more fondant for now and wait and see

I have just been at my hives to treat them and they are all packed with stores but are munching through loads of the fondant i gave in a panic when all the snow came. - i was actually going to post about this and ask if i had fed fondant too early... They are all full of bees which is...

I realise this may have been asked a million times before but..i have finally got some honey and its mostly heather. The first lot i took off i think in early sept came out using my little extractor but the later stuff i believe ling honey will not budge as expected. Is there a way of getting...

Maybe I've been feeding too soon this year - I've been late before so I thought get it done early. All my other hives also have the feed on and been there for 2 weeks now. I will nip up to ths lot though and get more space to them. Will let you know thanks a lot

My new site is up high and is surrounded by heather so took off a very full super tonight of my first lot of heather honey. Very pleased but there were just a ridiculous amount of bees pouring out of the hive and i wondered if they would actually all fit back in since i'd taken off the super...

Thanks for the advice - they were sold as carnolians! Turns out they are most definitely Italian strain. Just when I thought things were going well! I'm trying to get my honey production going so can't have the bees eating it all. I think I must have every problem known to beekeepers. Will...

one of my hives was double nat brood with three supers two filling and one full so i took one it off. Went back just now and all the honey is pretty much gone (one or two frames with some uncapped). In the brood boxes there is at least 10 frames of capped brood and eggs and larvae everywhere...

This sounds odd but i had the most vivid dream about bumble bees - the kind of dream you can't get out of your head the next day. Anyway i initally tried to find where i could buy a colony for the garden. I found somewhere but they had stopped doing it the previous year. My girlfriend then...

I must be bottom of the class as my hives are full of varroa, had to take honey off one to treat with formic acid. Hopefully next year will be better

I think its probably gorse but now its all grey pollen..

On that thread anyone got any ideas on bright yellow pollen every bee in my 4 colonies carrying it in? I wondered if it might be a good nectar source as well The rape around us is now mostly out of flower

i have managed to overwinter the bees at my site - which was snow covered for weeks it seemed. I do think the poly hives will work better though and thanks for all the advice. I will look up Finman. Currently after my formic acid treatment i have one hive on a double (cedar) national as an...

thanks for the help - i think i will be going for the polyhives and likely the paradise honey ones. Do these seem ok? So lang but this is mostly based on the quality of the hives rather than anything else. Double broods if its looks that way. it was seriously cold here over the winter so...

I have two colonies and 3 nucs (from recent splits) these have carnolian queens and one with a NZ queen - apparently need more space than one brood box. I have two sites one can be cold but is on an organic farm so plenty forage. I'm in two minds about a double brood national or convert over...