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Hi, I have a WBC hive which has been modified- the front boards of the lifts have been professionally cut away and shelves added. It has been painted white and has three lifts. It belonged to a farm shop, but I haven't found a use for it. Could be used to sell honey from or as a storage unit...

Hi, I have four excellent nucs for sale, on National frames, with well mated 2013 queens, marked at your request. The nucs have recently been transferred to full brood boxes, due to the huge amount of stores they had brought in, and the rate they were expanding at! I keep good tempered...

Hi, I am pleased to say that this years queen rearing/nuc making program has been successful, and I have three good 5 frame national nucs for sale at £130 each. Queens are marked yellow, which I find most easy to identify, brood at all stages, and loads of stores, ready to go into a full sized...

Hi, I have three nucs for sale on national frames; two five frame nucs (£90 each) and 1 nuc covering 7 frames (£120) price includes frames and bees (deposit on boxes/ possible sell) All bees are a local strain. Healthy and Productive, queens are 2012 marked. Frames show a good pattern of brood...

I have an excellent colony which I am looking to sell in a good quality national hive. The bees are a dark british type- fine to handle/ ,good temperament.They don't run about too much on the comb good workers treated last Autumn with apiguard. They are currently occupying approx 7-8 frames of...

Hi, I (like a few others I think), have had some poor results with queen rearing this year. I have a couple of colonies that are superceding- would you treat as usual with apiguard. I only ask because I know, (and have experienced) how it can sometimes affect the queens' laying. Don't want to...

I have borrowed one from my association and found it very useful, but would like my own to use as and when I need it. If any one knows of one for sale would be very grateful. Chris

had some success with a bait hive! I set up a few of these this year and last Friday when I visited one which had I had put there about 4 weeks before I found it had worked and even though the grass had grown up in front of the hive entrance the bees had moved in!! The bait hive was situated...

This is a story of NOT how to do things. A friends father anounced last year he was going to keep bees- doing it on the cheap which is fair enough- making his own hives. I asked if he was following any plans, no he said 'the bees did'nt mind'- he made something about half as big again as a...

Hi, think i've worked out why one of my strong colonies (well they were a strong colony about a month ago) hav'nt been expanding and hav'nt been filling their super- oh and why they've been a bit foul tempered as well. As I said in a previous post to the forum- the hives got knocked over by...

I have one of my hives which seems to be really suffering from a high level of varroa at the moment. They hav'nt built up very well so far this spring and the brood is patchy. They probably have 5-6 frames of brood which is weak compared to the others. I had a good look at the bees on Saturday...

Hi, what a weekend!- after moving my bees back to their summer site on Friday evening they were vandalised on Saturday and Sunday by youths I suspect who threw bricks at the hives until they fell off the stands. my initial feeling was to upsticks and move them on to a safer place, but a...

Hi, any thoughts on this? I have a couple of colonies that seem to have very little stores, and to am a little concerned that they could starve before theres any real nectar around. I have been giving them a slow syrup feed through a contact feeder, but wonder if they would benefit from access...

Hi, I am making some nucs with ply for the summer, and have got a bit confused over 'bee space'.My existing full sized hives have bee space at the top above the frames and also plenty of space underneath the frames? The plans I am using from the internet (which have been referred to on this...

Hi, I had assumed that the logical way would be to put the super at the top as normal but this was dismissed by an old beekeeper I met- saying no always put the super at the bottom. I can't see a lot of difference if its all worker foundation? any thoughts? Chris

Does anyone use Drone base foundation for their supers?. My old beekeeping friend prefers drone base for supers- he reckons that the bigger cups make honey extraction easier, and you should get more out of the comb- which does make sense. I have heard of other beeks doing this. Others use...

I seem to have had a particular problem this year of roofs leaking (not moisture rising and being trapped, but somehow it has got in to a couple of roofs. I'm not sure if the national flat roof as supplied by many manufacturers is prone to this. One of the roofs that leaked I assembled myself...

Hi, One of my hives is less active than the others, and has significantly less bees without a doubt. I have prized the edge of the crown board off, and the bees appear to be in a winter cluster between a couple of frames. I have considered that something may have happened to the queen in the...

I have used winter quilts since i started beekeeping, and these have been modified cushion covers with a piece of thin foam inside. I noticed this morning that one of the quilts has patches of mildew on the upper side. I plan to buy some quilts from a beekeeping supplier, as they look to be made...

Hi, I would be interested to know how much beekeepers in the forum are charging for a pound jar of honey? I am a hobby beekeeper, and therefore any excess honey I produce is a bonus, as I sell it to friends and family. Money is used to buy new bits of equipment etc. This said, keeping bees...