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in london we have had no real rain since April, and the brambles have gone into survival mode and flowered early. Their centre buds have formed fruit. A few near water courses or late flowering varieties have yet to flower but to me the bramble flow is over, so it is going to be a long june...

if you have ever seen a cedar brood box, scorched by a regional bee inspector after an EFB destruction of the colony notice,then you would think they where trying to make Charcoal

i agree with o90o that well stocked 14x12 going into winter hardly ever needs fondant. As i celebrated by big 70 birthday this year i went away somewhere warm for 6 weeks February/March. The only hive i had a problem with was one i had on a university shared apiary, The other beekeeper placed...

you will not stop them once they go into swarm mode, so you need to do a swarm control, whether that is a AS, demarree ,3 frame takaway or wally shaw that's up to you However next time, i suggest double supering your buckfasts, and not be afraid to super as early as 6 frames of 14x12 brood...

how long does it take to reach flash over ?

if it is honey not for sale, cut it up, remove the wire, place it in a plastic container and Micro wave it for 2 mins and then 30 sec repaeeated until it melts the wax, leave it to cool and seperate the honey from the wax...but high HMF so possibly not saleable except as Bakers Honey ( cooking...

london suburbs and M25 area looked in about 30 hives in last two days (not all mine), most on 4 or five 14x12 frames, willow, Blackthorn and dandelion comming, all had stores, Nuc were smaller on 2 or 3 14x12 frames and needed food, i tend not to feed much in autumn and rely on ivy with a top...

some of our county Area BKAs opt out of BDI but keep BBKA

now it is reduces to £15,99 ,so obivously no takers at £19

i always say to beginner that the top of the brood box should be knuckle height so my stands are 18" high and my wife's stands are 6" hive

The the BBKA forum link currently links to the quazi BBKA facebook page is run by Trish Marlow ( Susbees) and a large nuber of posts are very pro insulation i wonder whether the matchstick line will return once the BBKA Forum links to the BBKA official facebook page

i agree with Pargyle, sugar role works well enough for a quick check, you arent doing a scientific research project i use a small mug to scoop up the bees that i use with apidea (~200 bees)rather than count

agree, also witnessed by the number of calls i get from beginners in September & October "i have lost my queen, i have no brood, help :hairpull:, My first question is why were you going into the brood in october

There is some american research that says in a temperate climate then the cull ate of Apiguard in large hives with top ventilation is around 67% not 95% as per the Italian trials. I now always block feed holes when using apiguard.

I see the cabin fever has come early this year,hopefully it wont be a pandemic by March

so long as you have strong fingers to use the small half moon hand holds in the sides of the commercial brood box which can weight >70lbs

They steel the railway track as well http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1430714/Ex-rail-engineer-stole-two-miles-of-track-for-scrap.html

if you have a stuck entrance block, use a hive tool to split the box off the floor then use a wedge ( rubber door wedge or wood) to hold the brood box a 1/4" up But i never remove or change my entrance block from medium entrance, if i need to close or reduce it for wasps i pin a piece of...

if you read Prof Martin Book on the Asian hornet, his view is that trapping queens has the reverse effect in producing single large colonies that produce a great more queens for the next year and reinforces the common two year cycle as found with other yellow jacket wasps ( Vespula). This is...

rather late for apiguard which is why the varroa load is so high, i expect your winter bees wil already be compromised by the varroa load