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Hello everyone Has anyone used Apifuge spray or a similar product? I keep my bees on my allotment and while I wean/breed out their defensive and following traits I am looking for a stop-gap product that I can spray on my head to keep the bees away from my face while digging in the plot. The...

I picked up my clipped queen from the floor in front of the nuc she was in. Evidently a failed attempt to swarm. What luck that I spotted the bees in a ball and saw her paint spot.

Thank you kindly Ashley. I'm in MK13. I think I will be OK for boxes, I've several supers spare, and I have just made a floor.

Swarm, I split them because they were desperate to reproduce. I'd removed queen cells two weeks prior and now it was time to artificially swarm. Lesson learned about size.

Hi all On Tuesday I split my busiest colony, using a 5-frame nuc for the fliers on the old site and moving the old hive to the side. I underestimated how many fliers there were and the nuc is bursting at the seams, in the evening you can see bees almost falling out of the entrance. Today I...

That's exactly the same, pro-rata, as Tesco sell some English honeys for.

£5/lb in response to posters at the office, etc. When I go door-to-door I ask £4.80 or £4.90 (depending on whether I have 10p or 20p coins for change in my pocket). It's just below the mental block fiver mark. When pricing I compared the supermarket price and mine is cheaper per pound than...

Not sure what the point is, but it's the law to say that when the honey is a mixture from sources inside and outside the EU.

Try also National Bee Supplies. Website: www beekeeping co uk

Get one with a flat roof, not a gabled roof. The gabled ones look nicer, but are a PITA if you want to turn them upside down and stack your boxes on.

Monsieur Abeille, that was a collection of entries. Not all faults with a single entry.

If you feed ready-inverted food, such as brand Ambrosia or home-inverted sugar, the bees will not have to work it so much before capping it. My mentor said we would feed Ambrosia in mid-Sept, about 10 or so days ago. I'm sure that late Sept will not make tonnes of difference, so long as it is...

Our judge narrated his actions so everyone learned something. Things he didn't like: Crystallisation throughout Small crystals at the bottom of the jar Air gaps as discussed Branded labels on jar Wrong type of jar Class labels in wrong place Viscosity (not much you can do about this)...

My tip - read the rules with a magnifying glass. I was disqualified from my first ever show for using the wrong type of jars for my honey. I later saw I'd broken rule 6i. Pffff. The rules: http://************************/files/BBKA-honeyshow-rules.pdf And because this daft site ruins...

The Italian manufacturer's website suggests using not four week-long doses of a single tablet, but two fortnight-long doses of two tablets. Same total length and dosage, just delivered in a different pattern more suited to our cooler climate. My limited experience of how much ALV pisses off...

It hasn't, no. It was not until August when I first got stung by my own bees, and that was only during a quick feeding. I'd done weekly inspections since I got my first nuc in May, never even wearing gloves, without a sting. I was rather proud of how placid my bees were and perhaps that led...

Thanks for the insight, Doc. But I'm still confused about why this only happens half the time. For example, being stung many times on both feet only produced a delayed, painful, hot and tender swelling in one of the feet. The other was perfectly fine. Do you recommend antihistamine and ice...

Foot was an accident. A bee must have been perched on the back of my thigh or something, then I squatted down to better see the hive and squashed her. One sting invited dozens within seconds. The eye was my own stupidity: It's OK, I don't need all my protective clothing, I am just lifting...

Hi Doc The foot was someone at the local urgent care centre, the eyelid was an eye specialist (to whom the A&E nurse sent me). The foot, 24 hours. The face, 48 hours. In the case of the face, the eye area was slightly less puffy in the pic than it was after 24 hrs, but it had spread down my...

Hi all I have been unlucky recently with three bouts of cellulitis (infection of the fatty tissues under the skin) after stings. My foot swelled up to the size of a tree trunk, my face so fat I could not open my eye, and I had a fat finger. In each case I needed antibiotics to kill the...