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I must have pleased some beekeeping god somewhere as I had another bit of good fortune yesterday. On Sunday evening at 6pm I was called to collect a swarm which was on Someones shed. I arrived 10 mins later to see the tail end of the swarm entering the air brick of the house and into the cavity...

Got a call from someone about bees in a Bird Box. I started to say oh they'll be bumbles but the person insisted they were honey bee's as they had checked on the internet and had been watching them for quite some time. It was local to me so I went round and low and behold honey bees in a bird...

Hi all, I'm going to attempt my first soft set/creamed honey this year as I'm getting quite a few requests for it from my repeat customers. Now I have a choice of set honey in buckets to choose from as the main ingredient and was wondering which is the best to add the seed to in other peoples...

Hi All, Approached another local farm this week to gauge interest of having some of my bees on their sites/land and was welcomed with open arms. Turns out that they are affiliated to the same farming group that own the site I already keep all my bees these days, result....... :party: They...

Finally after all the rain the sun has returned to Southern Essex for the last few weeks (well most days at least!!) and the flow is now on at last. :biggrinjester: My 4 main/biggest colonies are now filling approx a super a week. Not sure exactly what flora it is that's supplying the flow but...

Hi, Reading a recent post about bee's in a compost Bin prompted me to finally get round to posting this thread. An old work colleague got in touch about 4 weeks ago and said that some honey bees had taken up residence in her compost bin. I was a little dubious at first as I had only ever...

Hi, i will have a couple of Nuc's for sale which will be ready in the very near future. They are the result of splits/swarm control on my own colonies of docile (IMO) local 'Essex' bee's and as I am a hobby bee keeper with limited space and equipment i need to sell some of them off. :) They are...

Hi, I added a test frame on Saturday to a hive which i suspect is queenless but upon my return to the hive today I was completely taken by surprise! They had not tried to raise new q/cells or left the eggs to develope normally, they had cleared all the eggs from the frame completely. What was...

No its not a headline from The Sun! :biggrinjester: Inspected three of my hives yesterday and discovered that all 3 were jam packed full of bees and they were close to running out of space. Situation was as follows; Hive A; Over wintered on National Brood & ½ and now has 8 x BB frames of brood...

Hi all, I thought I would let you all know about my recent saga. You never know it may help someone else one day (but i doubt it):) A friend of mine was going on holiday and asked if I would ‘bee sit’ whilst he was away. No problem I said and there was my first mistake……………… 2 Days after he...

Hi All, I will be looking for a Nuc in a couple of weeks to add to my Garden Apiary in Grays in Essex. If anyone knows of any suppliers of 'good tempered' :biggrinjester: bees in my area please let me know. Thanx v much

Hi All, I'm a new bee and i have a question about swarming. On Sunday I was in my garden enjoying the sunshine with my baby daughter when to my horror a swarm issued from my 1 and only hive. I was shocked because in my inspection the previous weekend there had not been any queen cells present...