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Well you get a hive and a few bees and everyone thinks you can solve all be problems !!! ;) My dad this morning went in his compost bin and a colony of bumble bees have set up home ! They are smallish a little bit bigger then my drones ! White backsides and a bronze ring around there...

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/video.php?do=viewdetails&videoid=111 this is a short vid inside the tree where my swarms have come from !! It's hard to tell but im looking down on them !! Any thoughts would be grateful please woody

I wish ! When i work out how to do it i'll put a vid on that i took up the popular tree of the colony :)

I am new to this ! But can't help think i can do a slightly better job of the supers and brood boxes ! i've come up with a 4 piece ( rather then 8 piece ) version all sizes are exactly the same the only thing is at the min the are in white wood ie pine so are slightly heavier ! but they are...

Thanks tom i moved it back to where i want it an placed a super frame with wax in it at the end of the ramp about 4 inch from the entrance . that should do it !! more casts !!!!!! 2 weeks ago i did not have a bee !!! now two hives . what am i going to do !?

Thanks I think it is a cast ! I tried the " move now option " but after half an hour I'd got A few hundred bees flying around the old Spot ! I don't think these had flown back from the hive I think they were the ones that had ventured out ! I'm going to mOve it after dark and see what...

I put a post on last week re a swarm of bees that appeared in my garden !! i made a hive and put the swarm in the hive . I'm learning every day about them and have got help from a few places including here ( thanks ) I've since noticed where they came from ! up a old popular 10 m from my house ...

shoot all three Magpies if not disturbing and eating your bees are pinching little birds eggs ( not jewellery ) Pigeons are eating all the oil seed rape your bees are feeding on . And as for the fox !!!!! Just kill em all !!! All three are vermin with no licence needed just appropriate...

ok susbees point taken i've all the protective gear , i'll start wearing it ! cheers

thanks for that rae ! so what does it mean when they all set off wiggleing at the same time in a buzz lol they did it when i was trying to blow a couple off the top of the sides . oh yes and comb built on frames already :) they are fast . but just out of a matter of intreast why do i have to...

Im brand new to bees really but a very fast learner and for years thought about keeping bees ! Thursday a swarm of bees swarmed on a branch in my pond area on the farm / barn conversions i live in . I promptly made a phone call to a friend i remember mentioning used to keep bees . In the next...