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Yes, but i do believe in what he said here. FINMAN, But I have seen often, how queen sellers lie about their queens. No shame what they do. I have been doing hard selectively culling and breeding AMM for about 20 years and there is a number of breeders’ in the country that i would be happy to...

First of all let me categorically tell you that i (99%) do not have or so far never had AFB and am not trying to conceal it. I have witnessed it on two occasions in apiaries and had the sad job of helping to burn their hives. In one instance we had 17 stacked up for burning. One of these...

But finman, I LOVE her.

If you were to get cross contamination how quick would you see it in the brood and then how long before you could say the colony was in the clear.

Good one. That must be why my bees are so chilled out.

thankfully so far i have never had American Fowl Brood but i am aware that it could pop up at anystage. So here is a question that has popped into my head as i start thinking of my first spring inspections when i go looking for the queen and an inspection of the brood for disease. Say i come...

totally agree. Nucs are been changed into hives and hives back into nucs and the roof records would never remain constant with the occupants of the hive.

i have all hive notes on the thickest waperproof paper that is used for water paints under the roof. I then have another one for each apairy which tells me what i need to bring for the next inspection and what hives need the most attention. This one i keep over the sunviser of the car or if its...

Have you any apple tart

I am in Dublin and would do about 10 cuts out in a year with a beekeeping buddy. Not all of them work and I charge.

I got called out today to remove bees from a flat roof extension that was been reroofed as it was rotten and leaking and the rest of the house was also been completely refurbished. I removed the last plaster slab that they had left in place when they had discovered the bees. There was a good...

sorry Oliver, you were right and I was wrong. In future I need to analysis my posts more.

Utter stupidity, is a little bit on the strong side.Fortunately or unfortunately I have about 100 stocks to inspect and any time I come across a queen that is not marked, then record's are checked and then she gets clipped and marked. I don't see the big issue and the procedure takes about 30...

i have a beekeeping buddy that continually argues with me that this color is blue

it wont be long now till we are doing our first spring inspections and finding our queens to clip and mark them

Kill her. She will never take your colony through the winter Sent from my HTC One M8s using Tapatalk

They found a small bit of ivy somewhere today but not much Sent from my HTC One M8s using Tapatalk

sycamore is in full flow at the moment and it is a light lime green

every think you did was perfect, except for making nucs from an evil hive. Join the nucs up back up with the other hives and if you want to increase then in a few weeks you will have natural good queen cells from a quite queen. I have so far killed 6 queen that I dis not like due to yellow band...

mostly timber hives, but I have about 6 polys