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Hi. I recently moved some wood and found these in between the planks. Not dead as they were moving very slowly. Are these queen wasps as not come across queen wasps before ?

Hi Recently put all my boards in under the omf to do oxalic acid vape. Left them in a week as did a 2 treatments 5 days apart. When I took them out after 7 days after the first vape which was today I noticed the usual odd varroa mite and wax cappings but on one out the 3 hives boards I...

It’s my first year doing demarees for swarm control this year as I didn’t want to increase my colony numbers and it’s been succcessful so far as none have swarmed. I’ve been doing a demaree on 14x12 on 5 hives every 3 weeks since spring and I’m wondering when do I stop ? Just finishing another...

Went out for a walk by my house and saw this. Was weird as I saw the tree and thought that it would be an ideal location for a colony of bees to setup shop and then I saw this activity. Honey bee colony ? About 30/40ft up so can’t get any closer and was using the full extent of my iPhone zoom...

Got loads of these all over my Portuguese laurel. Which bee do you think it is ? Looks to be a mining bee.

Bit of an unusual one I need some help with. My mum and dad have started keeping bees (this is their second year) and colony requeened itself in late summer last year via a supercedure. Inspections up to 2 weeks ago were calm and I was even thinking about using there genetics in my home apiary...

After some advice please as not sure what to do - I have 1nuc (F2 buckfast in progress currently in mating period) and 3 hives - 1off F1 buckfast 2021 queen, 2off F2 buckfast 2022 queens in a garden which borders onto a neighbours garden with a 2.5m high conifer hedge in between. I have kids who...

My mum just sent me this article from the newspaper. I was ignorant of this before I started bee keeping 2 years ago in fact I never really used to like honey as I had only tried the supermarket variety. Now me and my family love it and have really got stuck into trying different varieties -...

Had a quick look yesterday in 1 out of my 4 hives. Reason being as i was suspicious that it was behaving different to all the others at the entrance and there were a few drones. Was also 14 degrees and in a weeks time I’m away for 3 weeks. It’s on 14x12 and around 7 seams of bees. It was a...

Saw a presentation from the company showing how this works at the bee keeping show a few weeks ago. You change to a solid floor , fit these entrances to your hive parts and away you go. The proposed benefits are that it helps with managing varroa without using treatments along with other...

Hi, This year I acquired 2off swarms in 14x12 bs honey bees nuc box I used as a bait hive. 2off different boxes same position at different times of the year. No frames were in the boxes and I basically scurrried out after the swarms arrived to put frames with foundation in. Next year I’m...

Was just watching you tube videos of Oxalic acid treatment and this advert came up on YouTube. Beeamond commercial At first I thought it was a wind up but it looks real if you check out the website Beeamond website With my limited experience of bee keeping it throws up a lot of questions as to...

After a few jars of heather honey. I live just south of Derby so can come collect from anyone nearby?

Any ideas what this is? Came out my log burner. Doesn’t have bright stripes like a European hornet or wasp and much bigger than a honey bee.

I’ve got 4 hives and noticed a pile of drone pupae last week from 1 hive only. I’ve seen them kick out mature drones last year in the autumn but not drone pupae. Is this due to the sudden change of weather getting colder that they’ve decided it’s not worth rearing drones any more ?

Has anyone else found colonies are really aggressive a few hours before a thunderstorm? It’s the only theory I can come up with. Last week I lifted off a couple of supers on my 3 colonies using no smoke and had no issues. Was checking to see if they had cleaned up my extracted supers which...

Bees expanding nicely now and in need of moving into a full size hive urgently so now reduced to £150 without nuc and £220 with nuc. Believed to be a cast swarm from one of my hives. They drew all 6 frames of wax out in a week with no feeding and queen has now laid up 4/5 frames of brood with...

A few weeks ago retrieved my first swarm from a tree. Yesterday another first for me I caught a swarm in my swarm trap. Put up a 14x12 nuc in a April in my garden about 25m away from my hives and this arrived yesterday. Will find out if it’s from one of my colonies at the weekend when I do my...

On my second year of beekeeping and caught this swarm in a 14x12 nuc a couple of weeks ago. Suspect this was a virgin queen from my own apiary about 50m away as I saw a queen hatch same day (one I must have missed when knocking down queen cells as part of artificial split) so suspect there...

Hi. On my second year of bee keeping and so far it looks like I’m in danger of having honey to extract this year - last year was a right off. So far got a couple of supers filled and almost capped. I’ve got 3off 14x12 hives and only plan to have 3 hives in future due to garden size constraints...