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Thanks for the reply. I just messaged you :)

Hello. I'm looking for a mentor, ideally in the West Norfolk area, but I am prepared to travel. I did keep bees briefly several years ago after a swarm took up residence in one of my compost bins, but I could really do with starting from scratch under someone's watchful eye. Thanks :)

Good idea, thanks.

Just been to check on 2 of my hives; in the first one the queen had managed to get herself wedged halfway through the excluder, and in the second hive, I was just putting the roof back on when I glanced down and spotted the queen wandering up my leg. Not the most relaxing of inspections. Anyone...

Mine are loving the Mahonia

I used to work for a lawncare company and we always used Dori scarifiers, which you can get for around £400. Not sure if you'd consider that cheap though :D

The fact that legal action could be taken should they spread off site has slightly put me off having any my garden...

I'm aware of that, but thanks anyway. I'm pretty certain I haven't lost any secondary swarms, so I suppose I was naively expecting one queen cell to have been opened from inside and the rest to have been seen to by the first emerged queen. I hadn't really considered the possibility of several...

No, not on those frames, which I thought was a bit odd. There was some honey and pollen, but no brood. The frames in the photos were wild comb which were attached to empty frames when I acquired them late last summer. I have now removed them.

Maybe so. I did wonder that, I just thought it would be a bit more obvious if that were the case :D

:thanks: Dusty They mostly looked like neat, circular openings. I didn't spot a queen, but my eye isn't quick enough at spotting them yet. I already have a super on top, which is still full of foundation that's being drawn out.

Ok, I'm allowed to post pics now :D ...

Hello All My original hive swarmed a couple of weeks ago and, fortunately, I managed to catch the swarm and put them in another hive (I'd planned on getting another colony soon anyway, so I wasn't too worried). I left the original hive alone until today, and when I made my inspection I found...

Hello! Are you a member of wnklba?

Hello and :welcome: from a fellow noob :)

I'm from near King's Lynn :)

Hello fellow Norfolker :)

That's good, hopefully I'll fit in then :biggrinjester:

:thanks:

I've been keeping an eye on my new hive after my original colony swarmed on sunday.