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Thanks everyone for your replies. My friend the land owner has some thick wire fence panels that i can use and the hives are going on a large concrete base so I think I will take up his offer and put some fencing around them. Thanks again

Dear all, After three years of keeping my bees at the bottom of the garden, my wife has decided that it is time to move them! A local land owner has kindly offered me a site that ticks all the boxes except he tells me there are a lot of Badgers on his land and he has seen them digging up bumble...

what is going on?? I'm glad to see it's not just me then. I had to double check my calender yesterday and today to make sure it really is December! I've had more activity in last two days than on an average summers day and they are bring back loads and i mean LOADS of pollen?? Very worried...

thanks everyone. checked the supers just now and all three are fully capped so i've put on a forth and will be getting the extractor out of the attic for tomorrow morning!

Advise please? I have a very strong 14x12 colony that was so full and busy that I had to put my first super on before the beginning of April! I now three very heavy supers on the colony which are pretty much full of un capped honey, yet the nearest rape seed field I know of is a least 2 miles...

Dear all, Advise please! I have a very strong colony which was so full of of bees,I needed to put a super on at the beginning of April! I now have three very heavy supers on, pretty much filled (not sealed) yet the nearest OSR that I know of is at least 2 miles away. Does Honey this early in...

Dear Admin, I have not managed a proper inspection of the nest since the 10th July when I saw Q Br L and E's, I then had the chicken incident the following week. I cleared and extracted honey on the 1st August replacing the empty wet supers and the cappings the same day. they were v bad tempered...

Thanks eveyone (as always) for your suggestions and advice. My beesuit is a one piece made by basicbees, it's the type with the viel attached to a hat with a large ring. They got my forehead as that's the point were the rim of the hat touches skin. I think the suit actually did a pretty good job...

Dear all, some advise please... about a month ago I put up a thread after one of my two colonies all came out off the hive and stung my chickens to death. Well since then, whilst they have been fine when generally bimbling around the garden, the second I open up the hive, they all come out and...

thanks everyone for your kind and informative reply's. if anyone ahs any other theories as to what happened please let me know. Roy I have indeed opened the entrance block back up as it was a lot quieter before and what you suggest does make sense, me messing about with their floor may well have...

Dear all, I wonder if anyone of you can make sense of what has happened to me today. I am a second year newbie with two hives at the bottom of a fairly large garden shared with rabbits and chickens. generally I have had a good experience with my bees and am taking my basic exam later next week...

Dear all, you need to keep this in context, anaphalyaxis whilst potentially lethal is actually rare. 20 years ago no body had ever heard of it and no one ever panicked if and when they got stung. who like me, (the wrong side of 40) ever had or remembers anyone having a problem after being stung...

Dear Roy, glad to hear you are OK, I've been a paramedic now for 15 years so have seen anaphylaxis before and know dangerous it can be. most of the ones I've seen are either food or Wasp related however they always come across the radio as "bee stings" (bad PR!). The one that stands out was a...

Thanks everyone for your advise, Dave I am a member of Oxford BKA

Thanks Grizzly up until two days ago i thought radial was my only option and to be honest it's still my preference but it's a stupid man that ignors experience and there are posts on this forum that say radials have problems with manley lugs being to wide there are others that saay, in...

Morning all, I am sorry but this is yet another another newbie question! This is the start of my second season having done a course and aquired a nuke this time last year. However my nuke had a old clipped Q that was already failing so I spent most of last summer learning about swarming and...