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Hello all, I've suffered zero losses over the last couple of years and my Apiaries have grown quite a bit more than I originally anticipated - Given that I have a full time job to focus on and the missus keeps telling me that "you love your bees more than me" - I've decided I should probably...

Hi all, I have a colony on national brood and a half that is currently Queen-less (and eggless), they had a number of emergency queen cups which were damaged when I took the super frames out for inspection - the damn things had a small amount of brace comb down to the deep frames which tore the...

Hi all, I've just started my second year beekeeping and I'd like a couple of AMM queens for two new colonies this year - I'd really like to source them locally - my main concern is helping propagate the native AMM so as pure as possible is my desire. Does anyone on here run a queen...

Hi all, I posted in this forum a day or so ago where I was worrying that Irobbing and that my robbing countermeasures had killed a load of my bees... http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=26309 Having taken on board the advice from that thread I removed the robbing screens and...

Hi all, I started beekeeping this spring and everything has been going great in my two colonies - I even managed to harvest a tiny bit of honey whilst leaving both my 14x12 hives with a full honey super on. Over the last few weeks one of my hives (the slightly stronger of my two) has been...

Hi all, I'm new to beekeeping and I know that the bees use the sun for navigation / communicating using the waggle dance but I've been observing a strange behaviour that I've not read about anywhere and I'm wondering what it is. Can anyone offer an explanation... I have two colonies that...

Hi, Given that I have no bees yet - I figure this would be a good way of gaining some experience. Whether helping out in a local apiary or going off to catch a swarm - it's all experience right? :sos:

Hello all, I'm new to this forum, a new beekeeper, and a new member of NBKA / BBKA. If there's anyone local who fancies sharing knowledge then please get in touch - and if you're a new beekeeper and fancy meeting up to learn in parallel then that might be good (and make the whole thing less...

Hi all, I'm looking to source some bees for my first ever hive (two 14x12 hives in fact) and I'm not having much luck. I'm near Edwinstowe (North Nottinghamshire) but would gladly travel to pick up some bees if anyone has some available. If anyone has anything (or is going to have something...