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Hi Folks, I have a couple of nucs and full hives for sale in Cheshire WA13 area. All with 2013 queens from my calm and productive UK stock Queens are local mongrels and "bred" by me by making splits. I have done my best to avoid imports. My breeding stock is UK stock. Cash on collection on...

Been to check on hive activity (from the outside) in the rubbish drizzly weather. All my hives seem to be very busy and flying in the rain / drizzle. They all seem to be coming and going from the same direction so I guess there's a flow on (brambles out in force). Are my "local bees" just tough...

Problem: 3 Supers chock full of OSR honey. I have extracted (like trying to extract fudge!) and about 50% came out and has been jarred up. Lovely soft set honey! Supers returned to bees 50% full of "hiney fudge". The OSR is all finished here in my neck of the woods but the brambles seem to...

Hi Folks, I split one of my hives last month to prevent swarming leaving a queen cell in the original hive and a load of mature bees to hopefully get a good crop. Two weeks ago I managed to take 3 honey supers off this hive (OSR) and spotted some eggs, no queen seen and they were a little...

Hi folks, I am into my second season now and looking for a mentor to help with queen rearing and such like. Any advise appreciated in exchange for tea, cake, banter and beer! :cheers2: Cheers Knotty Lymm, Cheshire, WA13

Hi Folks, Please rescue my from my self inflicted newbie error! I'm a new beek and managed to overwinter my first nuc (now a full national hive). Last weekend I found 3x queen cells . As they were towards the corners of the frames and I had 7 frames caped brood, a frame of eggs & "fair...