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I'll give that a go too - better safe than sorry!! Thank you

Perhaps the recipients of these awards were doing what they do for the love of it - be it their hobby\job\whatever and at no point did they think it could be worthy of such an award. .. this is why they are mystified why they were chosen. I'm sure there is a word for it... ..oh yes.. Humility...

Thanks I don't mind too much loosing some bees - I didn't want them turning up at the swarm site and causing a nuisance\risk. cheers Danny

That is what I hoped for!!! :-) Thank you

Hi all Last night I hived a prime swarm. I've left the hive at the swarm location to collect the stragglers to day. I intend to move it tonight. It was only afterwards that it occurred to me the swarm is about a mile from where I intend to keep it (my house). Will the bees be likely to return...

Some cracking video clips there! Shame you missed out on the star prize. cheers Danny

Colour of the glove makes a HUGE difference!! I did some work last year recovering some hives that had been forgotten for years. My brother helped, his first encounter with bees, so I handed him some welding gauntlets, so if he did get stung it would not go through. For some of the time I too...

:iagree: I was looking at a shop jar the other day... "made from a blend of EC and non-EC Honey" What is the point of that?? :rant:

Steve Nice reply... I know... I'm fired! ;) But m'Lord, all the kit I'm using at the mo was given to one of the 3 people in our "little bee syndicate" so has cost us nowt and allowed us to get started. I'm particularly handy with wood etc so planned on making some more kit. It then occurred to...

Hi all I currently use Langstroth hives but I'm planning on making some nuc boxes, possible for sale next year.. should I be making National boxes - to appeal to the masses or Langstroth to fit in with my exiting kit? Would a Langstroth nuc be worth less than a National because of it's less...

Hi Huntsman666, MuswellMetro and others. I'm new to processing honey too, so I'm not looking for an argument.. ...But why? I'm interested in the reasons against heating honey as the method described above was recommended to me a few weeks ago (although I was told to keep the temp low)...

Ha ha!! Sorry RAB I was unclear :redface: I'm planning on taking just one colony (the result of uniting two) to the New Forest.. and leaving the rest where they are, as they have only just been ASed. However, I do REALLY like the idea of moving her highness off to a nuc... That sounds great...

Hi All This year both of my colonies have been artificially swarmed, giving me 4, but I would like to take a REALLY strong colony to the heather in the New Forest, (I have friends with a farm there) I expect it to move them towards the end of this month. I know I can unite two colonies but...

I'm sorry, :redface: how would I know? They were a swarm 2 years ago that was given to me by the Association Swarm Collector. So they are pretty much "unknown origin" ...and why? :D

Oh dear. Looks like we will have to buy\make some more kit then.. We expected to have 2 colonies with kit to AS them .. a second round will be more than we had bargained for.. and sadly they do not seem interested in filling the supers..

I had a peek at the cast over the weekend. :) They seem to be doing OK. There is brood and eggs and stores so things look OK They have been given reduced space with the insertion of dummy boards and a feeder on the top, as the last few weeks have been pretty wet. I've not added any emerging...

At the end of April I did an artificial swarm on one of my colonies. It had been raising queen cups that we had been removing and the week before were some "proper" cells. We thought we had cleared them all but when I visited there was a good big sealed queen cell. I found the queen and moved...

Hmmmmm Old jars... new lids... that sounds promising.. Investigating now.... Thank you!

Hi Everyone. This year is the first year I expect to have sufficient honey to jar up. What is the opinion of reusing food jars - that I have loads of... over buying new jars that seem to be expensive.. The best price I've found seems to be approx 31p a jar incl delivery. Is reuse a "No No"...

I had a "cloud" of bees around two of my bait hives a few weeks ago when it was warm. Nothing came of it. But I did get a small cast in the third hive:cool: Good luck! I hope you have new residents Danny