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Brilliant but their not my hands. There were two dead in the hive, it's solid floor with an underfloor entrance, it looks like they unfortunately couldn't figure how to get out once they were in.

Natural History Museum have got back to me it's a Deathshead hawk moth.

Best guess at the moment is it's a Cicada Montana.

Can anyone identify this , found it today on the hive floor

PM B+ He will know

Can I come out yet

Has anyone got a workshop manual on wives. Mine has started making a whining noise.

I've never studied natural nests, but over 40 years ago when I started it was common practice once a head of honey was forming under the queen excluder you moved the shallow under the deep brood it's a perfectly good way of pre-emptive swarming. Even now I'm all double brood on every second or...

The answer to what Macdee perceives as a problem is to look at what bees do naturally. They have produced a fantastic way of managing their brood nest, in the vertical combs hanging in a tree cavity they store all the processed honey above the brood and use the cells under the brood area to...

You have done nothing wrong, bees naturally bring nectar in to the hive below the brood nest, they then process it to honey and then store it above the brood nest, all you have to do is put a queen excluder on and super and you will find they will move through the queen excluder easily to store...

On the edge of a pandemic, at this moment in time everything seems like an over reaction, but when it's finished it's guaranteed you will think " Why didn't l do more "

Long hot summer your definitely going to need Ligustica

Brilliant tip, tried it out, I'm a convert.

Just checked Tom Seeley's research and the Arnot Forest is 2.5 colonies per square mile.

Through your research where and what kind of entrance do you recommend.

Australia imports all manner of goods and from your list above they drive imported cars, food, they go on foreign holidays they allow foreign visitors in and as you say the list is endless. How have they stayed Varroa free ?

No I used Paynes Nuc brood boxes with the feeder cut out, they take just eight frames https://www.paynesbeefarm.co.uk/nuc-mating-hives/brood-box-for-poly-nuc/ I made the initial one to try out the research of Derek Mitchell, and his research is correct when you have a highly insulated column...

There is also the modified warre hive that takes frames, with this hive you can do inspections and it is more manageable when nadiring extra boxes, or having to do an artificial swarm, Paynes sell the frames. I run several modified Warre with eight frame polystyrene boxes that take DN4 frames...

Excellent series of videos, showing from good research the benefits of locally adapted bees, but also you can improve as long as you don't keep changing the background population