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BipCo (Bee Improvement, Cornwall) would like to invite beekeepers to attend the 3rd Annual Bee Improvement Day on: Saturday 25th January 2014 At Dobwalls Memorial Hall, Higher Meadow, Dobwalls, Liskeard PL14 6LS 9.30am (for 10.00) until 4.00pm Guest Speaker: Robert Jones, bee farmer from...

Anyone need one of these? more to the point do any of you heather honey peeps think this would do the job? Not enough heather around here for me to want one. item no, on epay: 310504518894 Only short time left on it.

As above. Just been prompted to check out said sale and although i use OSB (Rose hives) same as national really and these feeders are a good price? Intending of adapting it to work as a feeder as wouldn't at mo with normal crownboard and covering the top, cant be that hard to do.

Keep forgetting to ask about this. Do bees only polish cells for the queen to lay in? I'm asking because thats what everyone seems to say and I've noticed polished cells in brood comb prior to stores being put in. I'm sure most of us have but not thought much about it. Its just that I've one...

Is it just me or has no one else noticed elder flowering this late before? It's always been gone before the end of June down here before, I'm sure.

Hi all. Do you, as a full member, have access to members details. Only talking about names and contact details, maybe home addresses, not apiary/colony details. Please, just a yes or no AND Association name please. Council meeting on Monday and this has been raised, hoping for help from this...

nothing to do with me. item33776e68f1 epay

A cast i collected on the 14/5 May now has multiple eggs in drone and worker cells, (on sides of worker ones) on 2 frames and single eggs on the bottom in worker cells on 1 frame. Weather was changing so didnt hang around to see the queen, if theres one. Suggestions as to whether this is likely...

What do you think? I would like to be able to keep my favourite/most useful threads easy to find. Would you? Yes No Why bother, why not just save as favourites on pc?

What do you think? I would like to be able to keep my favourite/most useful threads easy to find. Would you? Yes No Why bother, why not just save as favourites on pc? How do I make this a poll??????

Hi all, Have borrowed association book, Swarming, it's Control & Prevention, Snelgrove and found pages 82 n 83 firmly welded together. Have tried to steam them apart to no avail. Wondering if one of you lovely beeks would mind scanning those pages for me to print, read and include in said book...

Hi, me again. I noticed on a thread earlier a comment about the above. I cannot remember which one it was, if anyone has remembered please can they remind me? I thought I'd warn, jokingly, the naked beekeeper on this forum, but forgot to include the link, I'm very duuh at the mo me thinks.

Hi Beeks, Having just recieved some OSB boxes (flat packed) from the only official supplier in the UK, T*****s, I am wondering how far out sizes in different parts of boxes from same and other suppliers is deemed to be normal? 3/4 to 2mm may not be much, but its too much for bee boxes Imho. I'm...

Bees out foraging in the sunshine coming back towards home and finding it bucketing down with rain, or heavy shower at least. What do they do? continue through it or wait somewhere til it stops/eases? With the very heavy regional showers around here at the moment its made me wonder.

Can someone please tell which supplier/s sell top and bottom bars (National size) without the side bars? I've been told about someone, I thought in Somerset but cant remember who they were. As I use Rose (OSB) frames and the ones from T*****s are rubbish I've found a nice man who has made me...

Picked up a swarm this morning, already boxed by a beek neighbour who has Italians on only one brood box with 3 supers and wondered why they swarmed a while (not sure how long) after doing as A/S. Have now suggested he go to double brood or at least brood n half, when they've built back up a...

Hi, I was called out to a swarm in a roof. The bees? fly like honey bees, are a similar size to honey bees (slightly smaller) and all seem to look like drones, ie blunt bum. They have indistinct brown n yellow bands, by indistinct I mean they are so hairy they seem blurred. Fooled at first I...

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Hi, Colony at home has made an old ali canteen pan their water source. It has the usual bits in it, dead leaves, mud etc, and surprisingly it has not yet dried up despite (dare I say it) also most no rain for about 3 weeks. It is right next to our bench that it is sometimes nice to sit on, when...