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The last hundred years of introgression must have had an impact, however we must move on whatever skeppists north of the boarders want!!

Of 14 fullyloaded swibine/apidea not a single queen mated... plenty of swallows it seems at that site! Had far much better joy with the double BS boxes... more bees but at a different mating location. Not a super year for honey... but must say my native near native bee stocks have doubly out...

Could be Dandelion... still flowering intermittency in our orchard. Blue chicory also out now, apparently one of the favoured herbs in grass mixes in Cornwall... bees all over it!! Chons da

We run quite a few BeeHiveSupplies pollys.... usually run out of supers and find that the standard cedar jobs fit just fine..... and the polly roofs fit too! Chons da

And there was me thinking it was the friendly welcome that the Cornish give to tourists and the fantastic pasties! Blowin a hoolie outside at the moment... feel sorry for all the free campers who have had to camp out in the carparks with the toilet facilities closed! Chons da

His friends call him Ringo! Chons da

Remember attending a Bee Health Day does NOT make you the go to person for disease identification. Your SBI is the only real authority as they get to see 100s of colonies a year and know what normal looks like.....

Hairy Greenweed (Genista pilosa) Pretty much only found in God's own County of Kernow!! Yeghes da

Keep up the good work! Yeghes da

With some pest control companies charging in excess ( or is it excessive) £500 to eradicate bees from cavities, chimneys and other places the common beekeeper should or can not safely access... Check to see if pest removal is covered by their household insurers! Chons da

The Summer season may well be over in your neck of the woods. Get the crop off... treat for varroa and feed for winter. If they survive the Winter, find the queen in the Spring and requeen then... doing it now may be too late for the colony to produce winter bees if you loose the new queen, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by For want of a better word View Post Well done! Will buy you a pint in the Vic? when all this pandemicamonium is over Chons da You're on. Keep the Shiny side up!! Yeghes da Dave

Open a new post and let those barking mad sleeping dogs lie? ! you do not need a certificate to breed bees.... probably someone running a course localish to you? Chons da

Well done! Will buy you a pint in the Vic? when all this pandemicamonium is over Chons da

I have one large apiary site with 20+ OSB hives and a half dozen or so OSB nucs No queen excluders Only Cornish Native Black bees Produces more honey than any of my other apiaries.. year on year. Rarely need to use the smoker. Feed 2:1 / Invert for winter as with any other colony that has had...

October's famous Callington Honey Fair in Cornwall also fallen victim

Last season it seemed that all of my non native colonies were suffering to some extent from it... from reports it is going through the South West yellow stripies like a dose of salts!

Too hasty to steal the bees away.... leave the box with the qx on until dusk when all the bees will be in the box... if bees are still bearding when you go back... either use an extension on the box to give more room and remove next evening or wrap whole lot in you white sheet and take them...

This should be in the BEGINNERS SECTION... 1. Prepare 1:1 sugar feed ( I kilo white granulated sugar to I liter water) 2. Remove nuc lid 3. Gently move back the clear perspex cover to expose feeder, a hive tol may help. 4. Slowly pour the sugar feed solution into the feeder, bees will move out...

couple of pints of Speckled Hen Was the brew really named after the MG cars runabout that lived in the spray shop... called the Old speckled one?