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Thanks James and Jenkins, thought it was probably a chop and regrow job, thanks anyway!

So was having a look at our apple trees, we have a small orchard of around 20 trees, the youngest are around 2/3 years old. under the strap of one of these new ones I noticed this. presuming its canker and needs to be pruned out. so what is the best method? Just cut it out and let it regrow from...

Just an update to say I span out all the frames and they were all 100%. we have a radial extrator and I just did it as normal, but with a wee bit of a slower start. I will store them wet, we do that for all our supers, we store them in the garage/workshop and wrap each super in packaging film to...

Hello, I have just finished extracting all our summer honey, this summer has been awful for honey where we are, after an amazing spring. But basically I have about 8 frames of cut comb that are half filled. What can I do with these? Is it possible to just uncap, spin out and try them again next...

So update on this.. I did final inspections on all the hives 4 weeks ago. The two that we removed supers from had no brood or eggs. the two that didn't crop had a very small patch of brood and eggs so wasn't too worried. the hive to the left of the photo had no brood or eggs but i saw the...

We got ours from someone my father in law knows in strabane, but we have got queens from jonathan Getty in belfast. There is a list of people who supply on the website, 3 or 4 in County Antrim and down. Dromore association might sell them too or some of the members there will.

Just found a place called Andrew’s in lisburn that do 12.5kg fondant for £10.90. Much cheaper than anywhere I found online

We are in ni too, near Templepatrick. It’s best here to get the native black bee as they are much better in the rainy conditions (more frugal etc) the NIHBS will have lots of info online.

Hi I have just removed my supers from the hives, the strongest hive is overflowing with bees, is this ok will they fit in if it rains? Or should I do anything? I have just put in the apivar treatment today so can’t put any supers back on top or bottom for 6 weeks min. Super above is there as an...

Susan if you find any that do can you let me know? Very frustrating when nowhere ships here or adds a massive surcharge.

Thanks! were in northern ireland, No issues with lack of rain here....

Hi, So I was having a quick look at the bees today just to see how the supers were coming on. looked at two hives and they are doing very well three and two supers nearly filled. I went to check another hive which was a spilt in mid may using the nucleus method. This was in a nuc for a month and...

I haven't planted this myself but there is a-lot of this growing in one of our fields. Does anyone know what it is and if the bees like it? (the white flower)

Thanks for the replies, I did that inspection on Saturday, bees are now bursting out of the super there isn't any room left (all frames are fully drawn and mostly filled. They are just starting capping. I added another super tonight, I know its a gamble but the forecast is amazing again for...

Hi all I am a second year beekeeper, but first year for honey harvesting, we are based in NI with single brood boxes of AMM bees. My bees have just filled a super that was undrawn with honey (second super) it is still uncapped and they still have some more work to do on the outer frames. Do you...