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  1. YorkshireBees

    Latest Thomas Seeley Book reduced price

    Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting On checking my back order for the above title with WHSmith I found they have it on offer for £7.66 + delivery so I have cancelled my previous order and re-ordered saving me £4. If you take delivery to your local branch it is free...
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    Macro photography kit

    Having indulged my passion for photography during beekeeping using a trusty compact camera for a few years I have decided to upgrade my DSLR kit to enable me to have a better go at macro shots. I have a Nikon D300S and have pretty much decided on the lens to buy Nikon AF-S VR Micro NIKKOR...
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    Plant ID please

    Whilst doing some work at my brothers apartment I wondered past a small shrub in the courtyard and was amazed how many bees were all over it! Anyone able to tell me what it is? To me the flowers had an almost mint smell.
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    Phone calls regarding swarms that aren't swarms

    Over the last week alone I must have received approx 150+ phonecalls from the general public of which only 3 were for swarms of honeybees! In general 99% of them are about bumblebee nests, especially the tree bumblebee that this year has been nesting around the roofline of houses. Although I...
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    Yorkshirebees Photos

    Didn't want to hijack anyone else's thread to share some of my photos. Hopefully some of them are education for some forum members. Descriptions in order of photos 1.A Nucleus hive started beginning of May now almost ready for re-hiving. 2.Bees clearing honey after removal of some brace comb...
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    Plant Identification please

    Whilst taking a quick walk in a local park I came across a section over grown with a kind of thistle looking plant that was covered in bees of every kind! Anyone know what it is? I will go back to it later to see if it seeds and collect some!
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    Urgent Swarm in Doncaster DN8

    Any beekeepers / swarm collectors in the Doncaster area? I have been receiving calls from the public asking me to deal with swarms in Doncaster, this is out of the area that I normally cover and I have not been able to find any contacts for Doncaster other than one that the bb*a website kicks...
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    Plant identification please

    Last year I let my small back lawn grow long. Partly through not having time to cut it but also I let the clover grown and flower to provide forage for any insects that were interested! This year I did the same but stopped mowing it much earlier and it has now developed into a real wild patch...
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    Super frames post OSR crystalization

    Having extracted most of my OSR crop I found I have several frames where some cells have crystallized honey in. I wondered what the best way to clean these frames is. Normally I would just put the supers back on the hives and let the bees sort them out but I wondered if the bees will...
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    Small patch of brood in super?

    On inspection of 2 of my hives yesterday I was surprised to find that the bottom super (just above Queen Excluder) had a few (2-3) frames, centrally located, with a very small patch of brood on them. I am literally talking the bottom 2-4 lines of cells on both sides of the frames. The brood...
  11. YorkshireBees

    T's winter online sale

    In case anyone hasn't received the email, the body of the email is below. Our Winter Sale will start on Monday 21st November at 9.00am online when full details will be on our website Sale ends 5.00pm Monday 12th December 2011. Hive parts and frames, second quality timber National super...
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    Getting the bees to use the supers

    I probably know the answer but here is the situation. I have several of my hives now configured with a brood box, Queen excluder, 1 or more supers and a demaree board with another brood box above. The colonies are getting very strong (very large number of bees). However in at least 3 of the...
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    Re-queening question

    I have a colony that seemed to become more aggressive towards the end of last year. I am waiting to check it this year before deciding whether to re-queen it. On the subject of re-queening I was trying to explain the reason to my other half (a non beek) and she raised a question of whether just...
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