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Great local Derbyshire project detailed on this link. Take a look and cast your votes to support a brilliant local project: https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voti…/project/view/4-1555 Please click on the link, register and cast your 10 votes. Many thanks, Andy

The article says it all!

Experimented on one of my hives this year with brood and a half for the first time. Mixed feelings - some good. But that's not the question: Should you over winter with the "half" on top, below or does it matter?

Please sign our petition to bring back the Codnor Park & Ironville Bridge. You can visit the e-petition via the link on the web page below, were a full explanation can be found: http://​www.andycadman.force9.co.uk/​CodnorParkActionGroupWebPage.ht​m Your support will be really appreciated. Andy

Go to iPlayer at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00q7x19 Move the slider to 1:42:49 into the programme. If you disagree/disapprove on what was said You might contribute by emailing Radio Derby: E-Mail address of radio Derby: [email protected]

From The EKE January 2012

Had a bit of a problem with wasps in the single hive that is starting up my out Apiary - just 300 yards away from my house. The four hives in my garden do not seem to have a serious wasp problem. The hive in the out apiary was relentlessly being attacked by wasps, with the odd one or two...

In the past I have stored my supers in my shed with newspaper/crownboards/Queen Excluders between. I am interested in the technique of using bin liners instead as discussed in other threads. However, my concern is that if you do this it cuts down on the circulation of air. This may lead to the...

So far in my experience of beekeeping I have bee able to light up the smoker easily. First I kept bees in a school, I had a Lab., Bunsen burners - smoker lit in a "flash". I now keep my bees at the back of a greenhouse - so shelter to start up the smoker easily. I now have the opportunity to...

I have just taken off some supers for extraction. In one of the supers the central frames are full of pollen in the central areas with just a little sealed honey around the edges. 1. Is it OK to extract the little honey in these frames around the edges using the extractor. 2. Will the frames...

Have just requeened a hive with a Buckfast Queen. Then I came across this: True Buckfast bees can be very gentle, but anyone who has experience of Buckies crossed out with certain other strains will know that they can be the nastiest bees on the block by some margin. Beginners who buy these...

I have limited space in my apiary. I have just done a split in a hive, and just requeened the queenless half. Just this afternoon a week after I made the split, the colony with the flying bees has just started robbing the other. Bearing in mind I have only limited space what can I do to stop it?