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Hi all I really struggled to stop my 3 colonies from swarming last year. I was running on National Standard brood boxes but they very quickly ran out of space for HM to lay, mainly because the nectar coming in wasn't being moved up to the super but was filling every available cell in the brood...

Hi all A bit of advance notice - the Chadderton and Moston Local Beekeeping Support Group is holding it's monthly pub meet at the New Moston Club, Parkfield Road North, New Moston on Monday 9th May from 8pm onwards. The group started in Autumn 2015 when our allotment received a grant to set up...

Hi all A bit of advance notice - the Chadderton and Moston Local Beekeeping Support Group is holding it's monthly pub meet at the New Moston Club, Parkfield Road North, New Moston on Monday 4th April from 8pm onwards. The group started in Autumn 2015 when our allotment received a grant to set...

Hi all A bit of advance notice - the Chadderton and Moston Local Beekeeping Support Group is holding it's monthly pub meet at the New Moston Club, Parkfield Road North, New Moston on Monday 7th March from 8pm onwards. The group started in Autumn 2015 when our allotment received a grant to set...

Our local Beekeepers Support Group is holding a hive building workshop in Moston, North Manchester tomorrow, Saturday Feb 6th between 11 and 3. Due to the late notice (sorry about that) if anyone is interested in attending please email me direct on samurailord @ hotmail.com and I will give you...

As we have three beekeepers on our allotment and a couple of others on allotments nearby plus a few more who are interested in having a hive of their own we decided to set up a local Beekeeping Support Group. We meet once a month at a local pub and the aim of the Group is to provide somewhere...

I recently attended my local bee-keeping group and the topic for the night was 'Preparing your Hives for Winter' I sat there and listened as the speaker told us that we needed to take out the varroa board from our hives to allow ventillation (ok so far) and to also make sure the holes in the...

I have a colony that was split from my main hive on July 9 this year. It has always been strong, and when I had a quick look this week to make sure all was well and to check if they needed feeding I found that they had completely filled 10 brood frames There is plenty of stores and there was...

Hi all I just logged into BeeBase to update my records and I noticed that it says there are 214 Apiaries within a 10km radius Should I be worried about this number or not? It just seems to be very high - my hives are in a built up residential area in the suburbs of Oldham Andy

I recently split my only hive in an attempt to stop them swarming after finding some sealed QC's during an inspection. This was on July 9th. We .had not seen a swarm leave, but the presence of QC's and being unable to spot the queen led us to believe that it was very likely that they had...

Hi all. I would appreciate a bit of advice. I have just checked the inspection board on my hive and discovered about 10 black lumps that look like mouse droppings. The hive is currently very active and when I inspected on Saturday there was no sign of any damage to the combs. I put the...

Our only hive swarmed last Thursday. We had been putting off this year's first inspection because they are supposed to be my wife's bees but we couldn't match her availablity to the nice weather, and I didn't want her to feel that I was trying to take over. (We have now sorted this out -...

Hi all We got our first and only colony last June when I collected a swarm. The hive was regularly inspected over the Summer through to Autumn and we only saw HM three times, and of course each time we didn't have anything to mark her with us. The colony has has come through the Winter and is...

Following the recent arson and thinner incident at our apiary we have been hoping that at least some of the queens had survived, but we haven't seen any bees coming back to the hives carrying pollen. Most of the hives are quite active, even in this cool weather. Does this necessarily mean that...

Hi all I am visiting the Canterbury area next week, and wondered if there were any Beeks in the area who would be willing to invite me to see their apiaries and to have a general chat about beekeeping in general? I am very new to this (just got our first colony hived in June this year) so the...

Hi all We have just started bee keeping this year and against the odds still have a colony which we want to prepare for winter. We currently have one super on top of the BB (no excluder) which was part filled the last time we looked inside. We have decided not to take any honey this year to...

Hi all I have just placed an order for some DN4 frames, but the supplier has just been in touch to tell me that they are out of first quality T1 top bars, and have offered me seconds at 15% discount. Altenatively I can have the wider T2's for the same price. As a newbie I am now confused -...

After discovering that we had inadvertantly blocked HM in the super for a week when we inspected last Monday I decided that I would try and do my wife a favour (she's the Beek) by inspecting our hive during the day whilst i was at the allotment anyway. It was a bit windy, but warm and as the...

We have just started out in beekeeping this year with a swarm captured from a neighbour's garden after two other swarms. given to us by beek friends, had decided not to hang around in our hive for more than a day. We bought a hve and other bits from E*ay last summer, but haven't been able to...