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THE BEST honey that my bees produce, most years, including the last 10 have yeilded. wish i was offered the site.

the first time i have ever witnessed this one, saw a nice queen during an inspection, on the 2nd frame, thought it was near the edge of the box but it did have eggs and larva on. thought i ought to go through the rest of the frames just to check on queen cups/cells and how many frames were layed...

sorry to bother you, but how do you post a thread?

no on the 4th day after the eggs have layed down with bee milk

not sure, because graft now 16/17 days later queens emerge some time after that to mate so could be 3rd week in may, to be ready for mating im getting on with it as the weather MUST improve sometime!!!!

bugger all, theres plenty of blossom, theve been out for about an hour all week!! we had 32mm of rain on thurs, all very hungry fed fondant today

grafted 30 larve into cell cups, lets hope they take will find out in 8 days!!bee-smillie

will do

can anyone give me a clue to why plastic ends are always wider than hoffman frame spacing? thanks

brill will just share this with you, got a call late one night of swarm in tree on low branch, no vehilce and it was about 3 miles from home so, dug out the exped rucksac, took it to apiary and a nuc just fitted in the rucksac, so biked to the home of telephone caller, collected the swarm with...

i know of a young fellow who has just done the basic course and is looking for black bees, he lives north of helmsley, how can he contact you?

can anyone help answer the following question? i have 4 out apriaries and looking to move to somewhere with some land with an open aspect. I have seen a couple of houses for sale that have an agricultural condition placed on them, which means they have to be housed by someone involved in the...

10 frames of brood is impressive but then again you do live in a much warmer environ than in the uk

in the 2nd to last picture are those mouse droppings? maybe thats what has eaten away the wax?

dont shook swarm, put the 14 x 12 on top and on top of that put the biggest feeder you have and fill it with syrup so they have something to draw out the new foundation with

dont worry theres plenty of OSR around, there is a saying in north yorkshire that you would find it difficult to not see a osr field in your vision. im close by you, hives in ebberstone

working backwards, thats my timetable, i need lots of foragers when the first blossom is out in the orchards, pear/plum/apple/damsons so 21 days from egg to hatched bee, about 21 days to mature to forage. blossom out here in the north usually mid april, so working backwards i start feeding...

i have checked the FERA web site for vacances and its not being advertised on their own site, how strange

same with mine