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Oh by the way we are in Wilts

Hello, Thank you for your suggestion - I'm sure it is something we can try next time. The little darlings swarmed Saturday afternoon. I tried the brood frame in the new hive with lemongrass oil but it didn't work - in fact - I received my first attack when I removed the empty frame and got...

Hello, We started keeping bees this year, we had a swarm in May and have just had another swarm today and much bigger than the original swarm about 3 times the amount of bees - unfortunately they are in a tree about 40ft up!! No chance of getting them, is there any way we can 'coax' them to a...

Thank you for your replies, some very friendly and appreciated, it's clearly easy to see your mistakes when you have experience on your side - and this forum has a wealth of experience to share with novices not worthy I have been reading a lot of the posts and blogs (Enrico yours have me in...

Hello, This is my first post so apologies if I don't know all the lingo!! My husband and I are new to bee-keeping, we have done a bee-keeping course and there's nothing like hitting the ground running and we are ever so enthusiastic!! We took delivery of our first nuc in March which had 3 full...