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I'm short of crownboards and roofs so I will wait until next week before I make any just in case I can pick some up cheap.

Yeah, and I didn’t put any hive nails in this year!

If anyone is free next Saturday and short of a few beekeeping requisites I would thoroughly recommend this. 😊 https://sites.create-cdn.net/sitefiles/34/1/9/341959/2024_WSBKA_Auction_Catalogue_-_v1.pdf

I can’t say one single thing I enjoy about playing with bees. I just love everything. I can say what I hate and that is extracting, jarring and labelling!

I had 5 offers in an hour and 25 in a day when I advertised on FB for a site on the edge of a field, wood or big garden, most were unsuitable but about 20%were good.

I did it on Friday. Flat on my face, good job it was only a new super I was carrying and not a live brood box!!!!

If you are going to put a tracker in a hive it would need to be in the brood box where it is inaccessible to thieves. I experimented with a hollowed out bottom rail but my problem was battery life of the tracker.

You will know if they find it as you will have lots of bees with yellow “noses” in your hive. But as JBM says a mile is nothing.

I was rung up last year by a roofer working on a church roof. I expected to be asked to remove bees from under the tiles but he said his guys were getting stung by bees coming from an abandoned hive deep in the undergrowth below the spire. They found the owner who said he didn’t want it so I...

To be honest as Sutty says it’s rather anti social to let swarms pour out of an abandoned hive into a neighbour’s chimney. I think you setting up local bait hives would be seen as a very positive thing.

I think it may be just as slow as I think Roger is on his own as Angus is away this year. I know @pargyle proposed an alternative to the secretary last year which wasn’t acted on.

I realised that several of my advertised “5 frame” nucs will be 6 frame by the times it comes to the auction later this month so I had to knock up a couple of 6 frame travelling boxes.

I assume this was from the BBKA convention.

Mike uses 4 frame half size langstroths but mine are just half size 5 frame nationals which I make up from taking measurements from full size boxes but with an overall width of 230mm.

They are very noisy too. thankfully not this far south but my daughter has them in Esher.... when there are several in a tree they can be very annoying.

Not in the workshop but I spent a couple of hours this morning repainting all the vertical surfaces in my honey room with a two pack water based epoxy. Not brilliantly done but I’m sure it will be fine for the EH officer next time he visits.

I find that the Soudal glue I use gets a bit stiff if I don’t warm it in front of my fan heater on cooler days. At the moment it’s not quite warm enough to keep it runny so I thought I would make a small glue warmer. I put a 12v 15watt heated silicon pad on a piece of 25mm PIR then placed...

I think you stand a good chance of picking up a nuc this year as I’m told that there are the best part of 20 up for sale.

I thought that “frosting” was due to honey shrinking away from the glas when it crystalised! Have I got that wrong?

It’s the only method I’ve ever used, simple and effective.