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Hope you don't mind me pointing out a small error, melittin is not an amino acid but a peptide (a sort wanabe protein that doesn't quite have a long or complex enough chain.)

Hi Fraid not, had to attend to my own bunch of swarming reprobates all W/E. WBKA = Worcestershire BKA, Dix points to the whoever guessed it right!

Malvern & Upton BKA supplying & manning the stand this year. Rotates across all 7 BKAs affiliated to WBKA each year. Our Turn this year.

hummm. Ok, will leave fondant off for a bit & see how they do. I have to use an eek as there is top bee space in the poly hives.

Just starting my second year and both my poyhives have survied the winter so far. One of the hives is samller than the other as it was a swarm from the larger last year. The larger is teeming with bees who are very active and bringing in shed loads of pollen. I have put on an eek and fondant end...

Fab day out and managed to get my better half so interested in bees that she bought a BB suit. :eek: Also spent way too much and came back with 2 microscopes, another paynes poly hive and loads of bits & pieces. Have to agree that the tactic of walk recce and buy later didn't work as lots sold...

I did but then took it off to put on a miller feeder as I was hearing about a low to non-exsistant nectar flow.

I had my one hive swarm last week, only it had 3 months; it was my first hive and from a collected swarm. I managed to recover my swarm from my nieghbours house and put into a nuc such that it and the main hive are about 40 yards apart in the same garden. I'm not financially in a position to...

This is all very odd now. Had a quick look yesterday and still no eggs, no larvae and about 30% of the capped brood left to emerge. However, I accidentaly destroyed a charged Queen cell but found another capped 2 frames further into the hive. Checking more closely, I found about a total of 20...

Thanks for the calming words. I noticed that very little wax had been drawn since the last one and the bees did look a bit lethargic. Bearing in mind I had been told about a current poor nectar flow I plonked a feeder with 2 pts of 1:1 syrup. Well that lasted 1 day so I refilled again today...

Second inspection yesterday and am a bit concerend as this is were my inexperience shows. From having 5 frames stuffed with sealed brood, loads of larvae and a nice queen scurrying around last week, today lots of hatched brood cells, a few older larvae but I struggled to see any young larvae or...

aw gawd, It's like having a new family menber. Today I saw 10 dead bees on the landing board. We both can't stop fretting about them, are they happy, are they feeding ok, are they well is the current behaviour normal, are they absconding, etc,etc. Does it ever end ??

Many thanks for the welcomes & the advice. I was told the swarm was about 24 hours old when I took it so I put in 2 pts of 1:1 syrup in. Had a quick check 2 days later and wasn't convinced they had taken much but topped it up just in case. They seem to be flying off with a purpose big time now...

Hi All Been lurking for a while awaiting my first ever Bees. Done a fab theory cource with a local association and a few practical sessions at thier club apiary. On Saturday got a call offering a swarm and so I now have my own Bees to look after. To say I drove back wiht with a greater and...