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I have marked tens of queens successfully and I clip my queens too. Today however I came across this beauty of a queen, she was huge and staggeringly beautiful. I marked her and all seemed well. I left the (Posca)paint to dry for a few mins, but she seemed dead when I placed her on a frame. I...

This will be my first year that I have OSR in proximity of my hives. I am however right near a large apple orchard. I do not really need the OSR honey so I will not pollen feed, but, I don't want swarming bees and supers filled with congealed honey either. So I will have to let my bees do their...

So a few blue bags and some CD's will keep them away once they have tasted the hive contents? I wonder. Does anyone have a picture of a chicken wire protection contraption they use? I am going to have to build 6 of them :(

I have found today that I have lost one colony for the first time to a woodpecker. Do I really need to build a frame, or is wrapping each hive in chicken enough?

They are going to a temporary site, and then ultimately not sure yet.

I have decided to remove the hives and leave only a couple. So thats that alas.

Picture of what the the "excessive" problem looks like what the neighbour says is after a couple of days being washed.

lol, Well, my apiary is in Thanet, it only a couple of miles from Manston / Kent Int. Airport.

The council are looking for me, but have yet to make contact. The neighbours have indirectly threatened to poison the bees. Most of the neighbours are sympathetic and don't necessarily want the hives to go, , but say it is a very big problem for them and that the droppings are excessive. I am...

Hello there, I have a rather serious problem on my hands. I am not sure what I can do about it. The neighbours say that there are those dreaded yellow droppings on their cars, clothes and even books when reading outside. They say that the problem is not something they are prepared to live with...

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