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Thank you Barbarian, I last checked the hive on the 3rd of may, and due to my inexperience both hives had lost a big swarm, not unduly worried as the weather is good and for the first time in four years there is a good supply of forage for the bees.

Jonnybeegood ! love him or loathe him, everyone is reading him, Me, I ask a simple question in the beginners, and I get one answer, thankyou Goran. PS sorry about the hijack!!!!

B, if you crop the photo it should load.

Greetings, its half past midnight here and I have just returned with our hives which we had to take to an out apiary, question! would it be okay to make an inspection tomorrow or would it be better to let them settle for few days, the day time temps are running at about 30C with wall to wall...

Greetings from sunny spain, Happy to report that the swallows nesting on the timber beam in our sun terrace now have five eggs to look after, last year they never built a nest. We also have a great spotted cuckoo in the neighbours false pepper tree, which is in full flower so,happy bees.

greetings Yorkshire bees, south Yorkshire, would that be Barnsley ?

Wow blue sky in april in Yorkshire, impressed ,

Greetings from sunny spain, On the second of April I made a split from our best hive, 3 frames of mixed brood and one of stores, Then filled up with wired foundation, on the last inspection 3rd May there were no eggs visible to my rather unreliable eyes, it has been doom and gloom since that...

Greetings from sunny spain, 23C, battleship grey seems to be the standard colour of most of the hives in this area, even the ones on pollination contracts which are laid out in rows of twenty five hives on each side of the farm track, at the moment they are in the melon fields, we have a...

Good photos, just the tonic for a Monday morning !

Greetings, Photos please!!!!!!!!

Greetings, We are visiting Dubrovnik and there are bees covering the hillsides, working the rosemary and broom, on the outskirts of the old town they are busy with orange blossom and wisteria, even managed to spy an apiary of twelve hives with three supers on, Q old town is awesome if you...

Greetings, I am with mike t on this one, we used Hydrated lime in the calf houses and chicken sheds,

Greetings, I need to relocate my hives in the near future, and I would like to make a split from the fullest hive, Is it best to do the split whilst the hives are at present ,or wait until they have been relocated, muchas gracias, juanito.

Greetings, The only reason we use olive oil is because we have gallons of the stuff, goes well with home grown toms and a few slices of goats cheese, oh! and a glass of red.

Greetings, ours is slightly green but the furniture doesn't mind neither do the boots and shoes, my better half made it with olive oil, smells awesome.

Greetings, Many thanks for your replies, As the bees seem healthy enough I am quite happy to let them supercede , I counted twelve different plants which the bees bees were working yesterday aswell as many unknown wild flowers, Almond blossom,cherry blossom, pelargoniums, iceplant, gazinias...

Oh, in my excitement I forget about the queen cells on the fronts of the comb, as yet they are empty!!

greetings, I have just done an inspection of both hives, hive No2 all looks as it should, hive No1 on the other hand is crammed with bees covering fifty percent worker brood and fifty percent drone brood !!, strange thing is that the workers were ripping open capped drone brood, is this normal...

fresias, Greetings from sunny spain, we have the first few fresias coming into flower and the bees love them, its amusing to watch them almost disappear looking for the nectar,