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Sadly I have to give up beekeeping after an allergic reaction to a sting. I will have for sale: 2 x white painted WBCs with 7 lifts 2 x extra brand new lifts 2 brood boxes with strong colonies 8 supers with drawn frames 2 brand new supers with new made up frames 3 QEs 1 older cedar National...

After five years, learning more each year and loving my hobby, I now have to give it up. I was stung twice yesterday, had an allergic reaction, ambulanced to A & E and spent 24 hours in a ward with heart monitor and the full works. I'd gone up early evening to put my new rhombus clearer board...

Right, so I've got one hive with four supers, one with tow supers and one with one (a colony that made their home in an empty hive, fortunately. Last year, my best so far, I got around 45lbs of honey of two hives. Took supers off by removing frame at a time to empty super, wrapping newly full...

Checked yesterday and all seemed fine - checked this morning and there they were gone. All of them. Oh dear, what a lot of effort - hope someone gets them. Could it be that my apiary is too close to where they came from?????

Hi, bear with me! I got a call this morning re swarm in a dustbin in church yard. checked, good size swarm very at home in said ((full) dustbin. Back ate 8 tonight to collect. easy, brought dustbin home to field. But it's my last empty hive, a National when I've only used WBCs before. boards and...

The weather in Cornwall for the past three weeks has been wet and cold without a break so I kept reading the advice on here, so long as they have feed or stores (which both my colonies did - fondant in December, liquid in February) DON'T open up to try to inspect. Today is lovely, warm and...

a friend has some solitary bees in holes in a bed in her garden where she wants to plant bulbs. she doesn't want to harm the bees (or get stung). any advice on what to do please. thanks

After a great week last week in which I extracted 44lbs of honey from one hive (none from my girls in the other hive who REFUSED to even draw one super of foundation but have masses of stores in the brood box!) I think I messed up today. After I'd extracted the honey I returned the frames for...

Just went to my two hives in the hope of doing first proper inspection, clean up and taking off any remaining fondant and replacing with 1:1 syrup. Well smoker went out and couldn't relight and there were bees still munching away happily in the fondant bags on both hives wbc) Both were on the...

Hi the field in which my hives are sited is just cut for hay once a year. There is a lot of dock this year - is there any spray that can be used that is not harmful to my bees or any particular time to spray that would be ok? Thanks

Just been to do my first inspection - just had a feeling what I would find and so upset. All my bees, a good strong colony in the autumn, dead! I'd had them from a swarm in summer 2010. For the first time this autumn I only fed them the frames to clean after taking the honey then two lots of...