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8oz at £14 - Heathrow Airport. 12oz Hex at honesty box in Devon £5.

I had a sting on my arm that started to track red down my arm with gravity by the time I’d got in and removed my beesuit. I used the heat pen all down the tracking, pressing the heat button several times. Normally I swell up and itch for 3 days, but it all went away within hours with just a...

The most sheltered spot in the garden apiary! Stand and 3 hives turned over. Suited up at 10pm. Hopefully Queens survived. Off to check out apiaries this morning. Fingers crossed.

This thread makes me wonder about the storing of bee colonies in a dark temperature regulated barn over harsh winters as is the practise of some commercial beekeepers in Canada.

My new out-apiary is perfect except the ground is sloped, but I’ve made some plinths that sit at an angle in the grass so that the hive parts lay horizontally when I stack them during inspections.

Watched these a couple of years ago - they are a fantastic historic record of skep beekeeping. What an art. I especially loved the swarm catching.

But how did the drone brood get in the super. Was there no QX or was it a laying worker in a Queen right colony??

Heard this just yesterday before we even opened the hive.

Shocking weather down in this part of Devon. Bees have stalled and I'm having to feed them. Next week is predicted to be another cold wet one. It's almost painful hearing everyone talking about splits, demarees and queen rearing!

Made 6 JMB boards and washed some old poly nucs and boxes that I’d rotated out. Hope to paint them up today. Need to make some more frames and sort out my bee shed which somehow gets very messy very quickly.

I just watched the BIBBA talk by Tony Jefferson on ‘Never waste a Queen cell’. He said something I hadn’t heard before - if introducing a Q cell to a queenless nuc, the queen once emerged and mated would not lay until all the brood from the previous queen had hatched. Also if you checked on the...

I have 6 colonies moved to a new apiary- south facing and sheltered, I’ve inspected all which are similar to many - gearing up nicely, but one colony had swarm cells including two mature capped Queen cells. Luckily her Mage was still in the box and I had a spare nuc ready!

Made a bucket to fit on top of an extending pole in case I get a swarm that is on a branch that's too high to reach. I don't do ladders any more!

I took advantage of the cold weather and made a Russian Scion in the workshop. Will hang on some sturdy trellis and hope to tempt a swarm to bivouac there rather than in the hedge. A bit of lemongrass oil between the old frames might help. The roof becomes a crownboard when lowered onto a hive...

I have punched a couple of small holes through the Kingspan and looped a long cable tie through it to act as a hand hold. I do this on either side of the square bit of Kingspan. This means I can make it a tight fit but pull it in and out easily.

What does MRPS stand for I wonder?