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Hi all Question about guard bees and flight paths and garden usage. I have been buzzed a few times digging the garden around 10 yards away from the bees and stung a couple of times - didn't hurt as much as I would have thought so maybe I didn't get the full load but there was a stinger on (not...

Hi all - slightly panicky post so apologies for that I had my first look in my hive yesterday evening. It was heaving. Bees all over the two supers that are on it and what looked like 9 seams of bees in the brood box. I took the central two frames out and put them in another brood box ...

Hi all My bees arrived on Friday - full colony in a national hive. Acquired from an elderly gentlemen very much of the don't look if you don't need to mindset. He had looked(briefly I suspect) when he had prepared them to move them over to my place and advised me to move to double brood. I...

Hi all My new brood box( +roof, crown board and OMF) has arrived from Th*rnes, purchased in the sale and it looks fine. T's have provided nails but no instructions but there is plenty of stuff around here and elsewhere on how to put it together. Personally I had thought of screwing and...

Hi A couple of related questions I could use some help with! I hope to get my first colony this spring and as it will be an established colony, I would hope to be able to increase from it - to get to what many consider the minimum of two colonies. Reading around the topic it seems that you...

Hi all First question on the forum - and not terribly seasonable but here goes. How do you tell what your bees are foraging? I guess I am asking as I am concerned about oil seed rape. Certainly OSR has been grown within a mile of my proposed apiary site in the past(not sure if its planted...

Hi - I've been lurking :spy:on the forum for a while and hope to get some bees in the spring. Before I launch into posting questions on the beginners section I thought I better introduce myself. So hello! Done a taster course Booked on a basic course in spring. Joined my local association(I...