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Treated syrup and Apigard? Wouldn't that be a double dose of thymol? Surely, you should only be doing one or the other, as all treatments are dose related?

You can clean the resin off the knots and surrounding wood with white spirit, than when dry, use a external wood glue to re-fasten the knots in place. Any gaps can be plugged with putty, wood filler or the good old fashioned saw dust mixed with glue. It's not a skilled job, any careful person...

I hope your dog soon recovers, but this is unlikely to be caused by Roundup applications (used to dessicate the OSR this year). There are a number of alternatives including fungi (some of which are toxic) and plants, which a dog may have eaten. There is also the possibility of deliberate...

Hi, if the Beek who has recently put bees in a spinney in Gayton, Northants could contact me please, I would be grateful. PM me if you like.

Mine came 3-4 days after being ordered (last week).

I had this last year and simply did a shake out of all the bees, they had to join the nucleus / other hive so strengthened that one and weren't wasted.

I'm sure that more experienced members will be along soon. However if you block the entrance (with the queen inside) what will you achieve? I would unblock the entrance and allow the bees to go in and out freely, than this evening perhaps go into the hive and remove the queen cells (bees won't...

Recently moved my Business account from Natwest to the Co-Op (as opposed to being auto-moved from Natwest to Santander). I have nothing but praise for the Co-Op. Good service (so far) and when I have had a query, the staff have been extremely helpful and friendly (also easy to understand on the...

Then you were told to do something stupid and illegal... It doesn't work like that, all you will do is to wreck your sprayer, burn off the weed foliage (which will re-grow from the roots), waste chemical and pollute the environment. You may even get dermatitis from this operation. There was...

"Diesel use comes and goes. Originated with oil based formulations where the active may have been helped. However, almost all products are now water based so the active is not helped in the leaf cuticle penetration [or retention] process. Indeed, it is often antagonistic. It is not to my...

Would an insect repellent work? I'm thinking of something like Jungle Juice? I don't think you'll have much luck killing or trapping them, but you might repel them.

I presume that whoever suggested using diesel as a tank mix was joking. Seriously it has been done in the past, but is not only counter productive, it is illegal, dangerous and not environmentally friendly. You also don't need to use washing up liquid - again it's not a recommended practice...

See the thread "OSR made simple" below or the link below. Looks good to me. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gandboss/OldSite/BeeStuff/KissOSR/Kiss_OSR.htm

Took off 68lb from 2 hives in last week. First honey for us!

One possible solution to finding a dog that has got lost, if you know the approximate area, is to place something that they know smells of home or the family pack (old jacket of yours, bedding) in a dry place. They smell it, and may settle down on it for you to find later. Don't put food on it...

I agree. I did wonder if it was just me, when I was doing my first hive - I do have a tendency to over engineer things though! A year on and I'm glad I made the hive as strong as I could.

I had a similar problem last year. What I did was to split the original colony. Only one of the two colonies will have eggs after 2-3 days. The eggless colony gets the new queen introduced. The old colony should be placed to one side of the newly queened colony and then swop this hive from one...

I was told during my training that bees need a lot of space (empty cells) to store nectar so that they can evaporate/concentrate the nectar into honey (I know this is a simplified explanation as bee enzymes also play a role). Hence the bees need a lot of empty cells to dry the nectar/honey to...

As the others suggest, divide the colony, find out which half is Queenless and introduce. Ted Hooper discusses introducing a new Queen to a nucleus first, before introducing to the main colony (if you had been able to find the old Queen).

New hive just arrived in time for AS later!