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Large-leafed lime in flower and the bumbles and honey bees have found it. 'Normal' lime next door, no activity, So much for the idea that it has to be hot and humid. Humid yes, it just rained but 14degC.

Added a second drawn super on top of my double brood colony. Not taken any honey. Let's be optimistic. Still 20lb below the weight they had last November. :LOL:

My word, gas struts as well ! Looking very clean. . .for now. Nice work. :LOL:

Think this is a financial calculation. I can have x number more apiaries with the same workforce and am likely to miss n number of swarms. The result being +y kgs more honey. I've probably got away with waiting 7 days because I tweak the cups open with hive tool. Eyesight not able to see eggs...

If you take away the queen (eg nuc or demaree) or kill her or graft a larva, emergency queen cells can be started immediately from newly hatched eggs in any cell. They just continue to feed royal jelly. Then you have got less than a week before the cell is capped. But the hive has not made up...

. . from a 1 day old larva. +3 days as an egg = 7.5 days. ? Queen cups that can go on to be swarm cells should be checked for eggs and the eggs removed each inspection. ? Must admit I've not removed an egg if found. That could lose me 2.5 days and the QC will be sealed before next inspection.

Just caught the end of something on James O'Brien on LBC radio. Message getting out there.

I couldn't see any problems with the item (apart from perhaps the suited reporter holding a very poor frame of bees while she delivered her script).

When I downsized last year wanted to tell new owner about colony by looking back at notebook. I use abbreviations. Some of it made very little sense. Tried voice recording on phone laying on edge of box as i did inspection. Works. V. boring listening back. Don't want propolis on phone. Ran...

Just keep throwing on another super! :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: Haven't taken any honey yet this year. This is the only colony collecting anything. Making increase by leaving QC in top of demaree (hope she can't get down through QE) and making nuc. Demareed 2 weeks ago with BB and 3 supers, 2 with...

About a mile away. perhaps. Haven't been past recently, it may be over. Taken last Friday. The colony is not putting on any weight.

Someone told me this was a bee covered in buttercup pollen. ?

I've had to watch the videos at least every couple of years. Never remember the 11mm or 7/16ths.

Brace yourself!! No, don't get propolis filling the 4mm under the tabs. Never occurred to me. They walk under them.

As Thorne are my local beekeeping supplies company here in the backwaters of Lincolnshire I feel I have to respond in defense. :D In the YouTube videos of how to put together a Thorne brood box you attach the frame runner to the top of the side wall (warm way) and set it 11mm below the top of...

Gard'Apis Asian Hornet trap. £23.99 from Thornes Bought by local association at discount. Probability of catching anything in my area very small so will sell to someone in the SE where it is more likely to be useful. Your address must be in Kent or East Sussex. £19.34 (£15.65 + £3.69 postage)

We had a talk by Pete Davies at the association this week including an update of the AH trapping, etc. in Kent and Sussex. I didn't realize that lab tests can identify which nest the queens came from so you can tell whether a specimen is a new arrival (or undiscovered nest) or an overwintered...

This image came up on my Twitter feed. Honeycomb in sort of the same configuration. Dr. Lizzie Swarbrick, an architectural historian, I think at University of Edinburgh who is researching Rosslyn Chapel would like to know why you would make the extra effort to hollow out a space ideal for...

Saw the YouTube video and tried the 'leave queen in cage in BB' ploy in September last year. 50% success. I had the 2 unequal parts of an artificial swarm done end of June. Both parts requeened but they weren't happy with her so requeened again (I think, wish my records were better.) Decided to...

Lincolnshire association made a bulk order for hornet traps and I put my hand up. Boy scout in me, be prepared. Gard'Apis type. Given the probability is very small where I am I'll pass it on at cost to someone in a hotspot when it arrives. (I'm keeping my eye out for reports in Hull again...