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I've been asked to give a workshop in Spring next year at a convention. My talk is on swarming and the various factors that lead to a colony swarming. What I'm looking for is a monthly line graph showing various strains of bees and the rate in which the colony size / queen egg laying rate...

Just had an offer of taking a few hives to a field or fields of Lavender later this year. I have no idea how big the fields are but if anyone has experience of placing hives next to Lavender I'd be interested to hear more. All I've managed to find is it flowers about the same time as heather...

Warning to everyone. I would call this a moderate reaction compared to the last time I was stung which is almost 2 years ago now which I blamed on the heavy dosage of painkillers I was taking at the time. Minding my own business chatting with a couple of friends and I got stung just below my...

Bit late to be posting this but for those still logged. http://www.noradsanta.org/en/track.html :ot: PS. Click the green play buttons

I need to vectorise a logo for a friend who is helping to advertising my company. After looking around on the net the only way I can find to do is to buy some expensive software which I can't afford. :sos: So I'm hoping one of you guys can help.. If anyone has software that can vectorise a...

Could someone please give some advice on what cloth to use for pressing heather honey. I been told a well washed cotton sheet works but I'm not so sure its suitable for heather honey. I entered my associations honey show last weekend and was shocked to find I got first place as my heather honey...

For those of you who have enjoyed the life on a farm series (Edwardian and Victorian) and now Wartime Farm Thursday 8pm on BBC2 you may be interested to know Alex will be working with bees again this series. The bees were a swarm I collected on the 17th June. Two days later they were ..... you...

For the first time I've decided to put hives out on the heather this year. Last Sunday I went to have a look at the site I'd chosen from a long list of possible sites offered to all HBA members. Last year the kids had been out setting fires so a large patch is still recovering but after...

We had our association apiary meeting this afternoon and I took several pictures as normal for the website and newsletter. The owner of the apiary told us about a real ugly queen. It was only when I got home and looked closely at the pictures I'd taken I have to agree with him, she really is...

First one is the huge swarm in Whiteley. Although it took two days to collect it successfully. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZj9vDXntPE Second Video Not 100% sure exactly how many queens in total but at least it was at a good height. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNAStuviDHM

Here we go again. Just had a call from a lady who asked a so called bee keeper to collect a swarm in her garden yesterday. He arrived and shook the bees into a nuc and left it on the ground whilst he went to talk to the lady to ask for money to cover the cost of petrol. About 30 minutes later...

I was trawling though various bee related sites when I came across this site and thought I would share it as it looks interesting. Taylors Beehouse & External Bee Hive I've just sent them an email asking for some more information about the external hives. As the information given is:- The...

It doesn't matter how high they settle if the owner of a property is will to pay to hire a mobile boom cherry picker I'll get them back down. 1 to 57 meters no problem. Just completed the required training to operate 3a (scissor lift) and 3b mobile boom cherry pickers today. Half a day in the...

I have two colonies which are pretty poor in size and two nuc's which are close to boiling over so today I had two options 1. Normally I would swap over frames of brood emerging brood but this wasn't an option as I was dealing with a national and a langstroth (langstroth is the strong colony so...

Busy today. Good to see the season has started well this year. http://youtu.be/iGaszmQu2UU

This was my strongest colony in 2011 by a mile. After hefting the hive I was happy they still had plenty of stores the only problem was all the other hives had fliers. I lifted of the roof and found a massive amount of dead bees all over the place. The fondant I gave them was half eaten...

We decided to buy a thermal imaging camera and my wife has been on an industry approved course and is trained to PCN1 standard working towards PCN2. Whilst playing with the camera which was on lone to us whilst ours was being repaired we filmed this. A cup of tea...

I'm happy to see today the sun is shining and the temps are 20+ 'C here in the south, but I've now heard of two bee keepers who have said their colonies have swarmed in the last week. They followed the best practice instructions by feeding and treating them by the end of September, reduced the...

When for walk in a park near one of my apiaries and was happy to see the bees were very busy working this plant. Vivid luminous yellow pollen and tiny downward facing flowers. I don't know much at all about plants and flowers but thought I'd look it up and I believe its a Melilotus...

I will be honest my opinion of the beehaus was pretty poor after seeing one at a local county show some time ago. So today within the space of 5 mins I wasn't surprised to see imho how bad the hive truly is close up when in use.... Roof: The roof was one of the few items which I didn't find...