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Hi all, As you lovely lot normally have your fingers well and truly on the pulse I should think I am probably not the first to post this. Tesco are doing a 3 for 2 on 1kg and 0.5 kg Fondant. Cheers Beesrus

Hi, Can someone reassure me this is normal behaviour? Been doing this for 2 days now. Thanks

Hi, I am going to re-combine 2 of my colonies today and wondered whether anyone knew the correct quantity of ingredients for spraying the bees? Lemon grass oil? Sugar? Water? Last time I did this I had White bees flying around for weeks, I did however observe some drift between hives which I...

Hi, A local timber merchants have suggested I use Ash for my hive components does anyone have any thoughts on this? I tend to weather proof my hives a dark brown anyway. Thanks BeesRus

Can anyone tell me what plant the blue pollen is coming from?

Hi I attempted to recombine 2 colonies today after an AS a month ago. I have a good laying queen in one hive so went through the other hive to locate and dispatch the queen who is not laying. When I located her I noticed some rather peculiar behaviour. I have observed mated queens and they seem...

Hi all, The bees in one of my hives were on a double BB until i AS'd them a few weeks ago. Since then they have all but ignored the honey super (i wanted them to draw out in time for honey flow) and stored a good amount of honey in the 2nd BB, at the moment the hive is with a virgin queen so i...

Hi, I am new to bee keeping this year and apart from a few newbee mistakes I am doing ok and have 1 strong colony and 2 colonies that I will be recombining in a couple of weeks leaving me with 2 which is the number I want to retain ideally. With the swarm control measures i have done and a...

Hi, Please can someone tell me why my artificial swarm hive is trying to swarm again? Ahhhhh BeesRus

Hi, My book (David Cramp) says that you can increase honey stores by drilling a 10mm hole in each of your supers to allow easy coming and going by the bees? Is this something anyone does and are there potential drawbacks to this? Thanks Marc

Hi all, recently saw a post here about a gauze supplier but cannot find the thread can anyone direct me? Thanks Marc

Hi all, I was stung for only the second time yesterday by one of my rather angry little nucleus hive bees. Thing is the last time I was stung on my finger it was a bit sore and numb for a day then subsided. After getting stung on a different finger yesterday my finger I really swollen and...

Hi, please can someone advise me of the best way to combine a queen right nuc with a queenless hive ?

Hi All, I'm new to beekeeping and today my nuc swarmed and I nearly lost my second swarm of the season. The Queen was a virgin literally 1-2 days old, please can someone explain to me why this would happen? On my last inspection there was a new queen and still a capped QC could this be the...

I recently created a nuc/split from a strong hive without a laying queen in, i just took brood, is this referred to as a split or nuc? Also, as there was no queen present they are trying to raise a new queen. After about 9 days i have 5 queen cells but as yet no queen. Should i destroy the...

I recently lost a swarm from one of my hives and that particular hive has struggled to raise a queen, correction, they raised queens fine but somehow they seemed to die or be killed/eaten, I can only assume by birds etc. I thought to remove a frame of brood, stores and bees from my other hive...

Hi All, Well i lost a swarm today, missed all the signs and in hindsight should have done more to prevent it. Its my first Nuc and hive so i think i'm allowed one mistake can't believe the little blighters swarmed after 1 month.... Anyone hear of a swarm in Over Peover / Knutsford A54 area...

Hello, I am v.new to bee keeping and about to purchase a nucleus or two to get started. What i was wondering is whether the majority of UK bee keepers prefer to keep hybrid imported species or should we all be helping our native honey bees? Let me know your thoughts because i need to decide...

Hi New bee keeper, require 2 nucleus's as soon as they're ready... Let me know prices... Thanks Marc

Hi All, My uncle and I have recently invested in 2 national bee hives and are eagerly awaiting the spring to get started. We would like to obtain a nucleus locally so if anyone is planning on making 1 or 2 nucleus's available in the stockport or Knutsford areas (or anywhere in between) we'd...