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Almost as funny as when he tried to pronounce Sachin Tendulkar !

As jbm describes it . Go with ultra thin wireless and in supers 2 and above , don’t leave it in any longer then you need to and if its capped take it out . It looks a lot better if you havnt got weeks worth of bees walking all over it and colouring the cappings .

If, is the important word there. I was working on the basis that the queen was killed ( maybe) today , still plenty of freshly laid eggs in there ? Also , between frame 2 and 3 the brace comb is because the frames weren’t butted up , from your photo I can see the space and the comb isn’t...

There will be emergency cells in a few days if she is dead , keep an eye out later in the week , no need for a test frame just yet . The mess of brace comb is due to the frames not being squeezed up together when you first closed the hive . Tidy it up as best you can and they will sort it out .

Name of a dog we lost some years ago.

Not technically in the apiary but .... Thursday I spent the day trying to inform/educate half a dozen classes from the local primary school in Barnham . Same as last year generally , had a hive with drawn and undrawn frames in . This year the challenge was on though , as the kids had done some...

Any chance of a photo , it would narrow it down a bit .

If you’re keen Tho*nes sell them for £55 a pop . But I wouldn’t spend too much time thinking about this particular contraption .

I have had similar in one or two of mine . My best guess was newly emerged drones going walkabout and squeezing through before they had bulked up and been fed .

May blossom only just starting here ! All of mine well behaved so far but very early days .

If the old colony was as spiteful as you have said I would expect an improvement in behaviour because of your new caged queen , the only ‘however’ I would add to that is whether you now have two colonies in one hive with the super between brood boxes isolating them from each other . Check the...

A coat of sadolin on a few rooves and a dozen tired looking supers . Made a start on some super frames but snow/sleet and hail drove me indoors . Cold as hell in the wind . Still waiting for sensible temps for first inspection .

I had a call a few years ago now from a greenkeeper at a local golf course who found bees in a felled tree . It was mid January with a covering of snow so all the bees were back in when I arrived . I cut a couple of feet below the entrance hole and got lucky and missed the bottom of the nest ...

Sounds like they are dealing with the moth problem so let’s park that for a minute. First job is find the queen , I wouldn’t expect them to swarm/make preparations just yet , is it possible you damaged or killed the queen on your last inspection ? Find her ASAP or decide she is definitely not...

It sounds like a good deal for the buyer , it’s still cheaper than one of the major suppliers who asking more than that for a nuc . That said , if the timber work is unwanted ( guessing it is) then nice to give someone a bargain.

Put two tyres one on top of the other and wire them together . This allows you to have a splitting log in the bottom tyre and something to work against .

Took two recently arrived swarms from my garden and donated them to a chap on the beating line on a local shoot. Not had bees before so this year he has me as mentor . Loaned him the kit for two hives and we will come to an arrangement if he continues next year . Nice docile bees both with...

School demo. At one of my apiaries at 7 this morning . Pulled a frame of bees and mainly sealed brood to put in a frame cage . 2 frames sealed honey from a super also taken . Set up at local country estate in their parkland along with the woodsman , deer manager and arable farm manager. The...

Up at 4.30am . Moved a swarm collected last May from the garden due to the colony getting a little tetchy . Today I am going through my other apiary with a complete beginner who wants a couple of colonies but has done no theory training apart from a little reading . Throw him in at the deep end...

Just about warm enough yesterday for a look through one apiary. 7 hives . One queen less the other 6 are “ok” . All showed the odd bit of drone brood but I think I am 3 weeks behind where I was last year , and that wasn’t the greatest of Springs either . Nothing in need of supering but put them...