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Very true Improvement for some is to buy in something someone else says is good. Simple selection of the best, controlling mating .... and improving their stock, seem far too complicated. But if beekeepers in an area could work together we could all benefit..... then one goes and chucks in a...

Seems more beekeepers are going plastic.... saves a lot of time and expense of messing around with old fashioned wooden frames and possibly Chinese beeswax contaminated foundation...... Any converts ? Chons da

They are Living the Good Life by proxy! Yet another facet of beekeeping and one well worth pursuing.:winner1st: Yeghes da

I witnessed an incredible "shag~fest" of apiary vicinity mating last year at one of BA's old haunts.... an isolated place up on Dartmoor. Drones everywhere and an incredible burst of activity and noise... then silence I think the drone congregation area event is as rare as it seems to be...

:winner1st: All such a worry... particularly when a beekeeper who lives in an area in which it has been very well publicised as a voluntary native bee breeding area.... imports so called "Buckfast" bees from Gozo and sells on to his BBKA branch at a knock down £27 each .... because colonies...

You could plausibly blame a prospective 2nd home owner who was taking a "look around"! ( One such stopped, fined, and sent home by Devon & Cornwall constab. on the A30... said their trip was not an essential journey... had travelled 200 miles from London!!!) ( Radio Cornwall yesterday) Chons da

Some use drone comb above a qx in a supers... ???carries a few grams extra honey. OR Put in the brood box.. bees may add more drone comb to the bottom of the frame.. place towards the edge of the brood chamber. Chons da

BIG THANK YOU..... To Sherriff in Cornwall ( Beesuit manufacturers) for donating bags to machine wash uniform in, to the staff at RCH Trelisk Hospital. My nephew has just taken up an NHS front line nursing post... leaving a very well paid Private sector post ( Not a lot of cosmetic surgery...

And "drones eat lots of honey, do not make any and take up space for honey producing workers in the hive".... actually heard this at a lecture given by a "Master Beekeeper"

I feed all of my girls ipomea extract!!

Some of my Cornish Amm queens fit that description... and (grafter mother queen) DNA shows 95% Amm and group M in the mitochondrial DNA...... and this seems to breed true as nearly all of the 40 nucs I checked yesterday ( Last seasons queens open mated on Rame) had queens of this coloration...

:winner1st::winner1st::winner1st: Did you clip her too?

Twas as funny as the blast of fresh air coming from No10!:winner1st:

If varroa levels are low... could be something very special! Do an alcohol wash. Chons da

My Native Cornish black bees must stay out all night foraging... by the copious amount of honey they are stashing away! Chons da

You are supposed to do all the zips up! OOOH ERRR misses... have you seen the size of my Easter Eggs? Chons da

Great until one gets you in the happy sacks! However "brave" you are.. wear a full beesuit!:calmdown: Chons da

For balance... some of the hybridised bees produced in the way of Brother Adam, can be very nice and productive bees to keep. Just giving them the generic title of "Buckfast" does not mean that they will be nice to keep and productive.... I have seen some real so called "Buckfast" horrors...

Does the opposite run true if the f4 gen is inseminated with the ( near 100%) pure drone. I still can not understand how a hybrid ised bee between 2 sub species can be called pure? One of my apiary owners breeds Devon Red cattle and he goes to extreem lengths to select the correct bull...

Pure Buckfasts? They are hybrids