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Effects of Feeding Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) With Industrial Sugars Produced by Plants Using Different Photosynthetic Cycles (Carbon C3 and C4) on the Colony Wintering Ability, Lifespan, and Forage Behavior Abstract In the study, 130 honey bee colonies fed with different levels (5, 20...

I have stuck a few buckets in the back of my car. It was going to be sunny this week, so I was hoping that a few days parked at the railway station in the sun may get it back to liquid. Free heating and a wasp free environment, assuming that I remembered to close the windows!

Thanks. They are in a field but I have two hives there, so I will put a frame in from the other and see what happens.

About 3 wks They were reasonably calm to start with, but got agitated after a few minutes. Not overly aggressive, but they did follow me for about 10 metres There were 3 brood combs that have been welded together with brace comb running at an angle which I didn't remove, but pretty sure that...

Big hive but no brood or eggs. Trapped the queen above the QE and found it a few weeks ago. Removed the QE, but must have squashed the Q Looked this weekend and nothing ! Lots of bees and stores though.

I have a hive which had three full supers and a clearing board. I left the clearing board on for a couple of days after putting an acetate sheet above it to keep the bees out. Last night there was a wasp superhighway into one of the vents in the roof where the internal mesh had a bit of a gap...

Thanks. I had meant a split for the bees to raise a queen. Buying in a queen is a good alternative.

Would like to get a queen if it's not too late.

Excellent Idea Thanks Enrico

I have just put a pile of cappings into the oven in a silicone cake tin at 65 degrees... When it melts take it out and let it cool....wax tablet on the top and cooking honey on the bottom

I have just taken 11 supers off my hives....they are stacked in the kitchen and I have realised that there are a lot of bees still in the boxes...I used a blower to clear them....in effectually!

Run a line of thick bleach over your mouldy silicone and leave it overnight or a day or two.....it'll clear even embedded mould

I am on my fourth little chefs torch....they are rubbish

Hahaha been there! Won't fit in a car boot either without getting it legless!

Bugger ! I started reading this thread and thought "How nice and friendly, what a nice change that everyone is positive....." Unfortunately I should have stopped after the first couple of pages....I read through to page 6 before a canned it We can't help but inject all that malice and emnity...

Hmmm....I was feeling a bit chuffed with my lot this year until I saw that lot. Are you sure that the boxes are full Mr Jenkins!

I opened up a couple of poly nucs on Saturday, gentle as lambs. Took out a couple of frames, no gloves or veil. Don't recommend going in without protection, but a quick peek! Same hive on Sunday was a boiling mass of anger...stung through the bee suit a few times, and several times on the...

Success!! I opened the nuc this afternoon when I was home from work....the queen was still padding round with quite a few bees on the cage. I decided to leave them a while and went to the pub for supper.......on my return, I released the queen and she wandered off unmolested. Two frames one of...

Many thanks. I was a bit worried because I didn't get any helpers in the cage with the queen. There were some cells with nectar so I don't think she'll starve for a couple of days. Better get the paper on the other hive.

Had a cut-out colony which was doing well but ran out of food and half starved, but the queen was really nice and docile. I waited for the brood to hatch out and have taken the queen out and put her in a nuc with bees from three hives, shes in a push in cage and the nuc sealed up. The remaining...