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came across this today. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27283519

hi just a quick question. i came across a hive recently which have some yellow/orangy stuff in the cell with the larvae. i removed a few larvae and it had stained the larvaes skin. otherwise everything looked fine ie regular bands of same aged larvae c shape in base of cell well segmented...

i have been messing about with hivetracks for a while, but am considering using it in a serious way this season and beyond. However the pro version is 60 dollars a year (not insignificant to my wallet). Any experience from users? Is it worth the lump EVERY year? thanks everyone.

hi all. just looking for a bit of advise on a hive that is going for an early supercedure She is on double brood and had some fondant over them in and inverted ashford feeder as belt and braces from febuary. Between one thing and another it got strong and they drew some comb in the feeder and...

Does anyone know if bedrock affects honey yield or quality? And if it does is there a list about the place somewhere? I seem to rember some mention of it in manleys book and i think i have encountered it before however i cant find much info about it. it would be interesting to add to my...

hi has anyone else noticed a lot of queens dissapering and leaving the hive queenless. i have spoken to a few larger beeks over here and they are saying up to 30% of their hives have gone queenless in the last few weeks. i have had this happen with a few of mine aswell. anyone else noticing...

hi all. i have been asked to give a talk to a crowd at a music festival about beekeeping. i should have said no but i didnt so now i have to do it. any advise what to talk about . i expect the crowd to hopefully be small drunk and have no previous experiance.

hi all. nice quick question do you think i could use 1 or two grafted larvae in lue of a test frame the back ground to this is i made 19 6 frame nucs and i want to see which ones dont still have queens in with out having to go finding 19 test frames would not be hard to put in a few grafts...

hi. i went to help our a member of my local club with his hives today. one of his hives decided its time to pack up bags and move on. so im sat there with a very illusive queen in a hive with open primed queen cells. Now comes the nice bit. they were open for close to 2 hours all told and had...

hi all. i am considering using starter strips to collect my heather crop later on this year. has anyone done this and how did you find it? i am considering using half strips half foundation to make for straight comb. Ill be using national poly broodboxes as supers so the height from the bottom...

hi i have a mate with a quite stroppy hive. he has it suituated almost directly under a large tansformer on a power line. The hive would be about 2 meters from the pole and about 5 meters under the transformer so could easily be within range from weird and wonderfully sparky stuff. Anyway the...

hi all. I have two hives which are preparing to swarm. i have well charged abundant swarm cells at the 1-2 day old larvae stage during the last inspection . the cells are due to seal on saterday(ish), i intend to let them swarm as i want to stock a topbar hive to see what its like to run. I...

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hi nice simple question i have in order of 50 brood frames with capped stores mainly syrup which i intend to remove from my hives shortly (everything dependant weather flow etc) and use for making up nuc's later on in the year. How would you go about storing them? They will be fully caped...

look what lack of coffee makes you do...

hi i am thinking of buying a medium extractor around the 9-20 frame range and have come up with a few suppliers and was wondering if anyone has experience with any of them and could advise with regards quality and value for money. the suppliers i have come up with are 1 thomas-apiculture...

just wondering how much people spend on each hive per year. the poll ran for a day or two but some options were missing so i asked admin to pull it so it can restart with all the options there since there is no way to edit it once its started. i am sorry for wasting your time to anyone who...

hi simple and very complex question. i recently aquired about 4 tonne of rubber wood packing crates for cut stone. and the sections of wood are big enough to use for hives. I have to assume they have gone through the same propcess of all pallets and have been treated and fumigated in some way...

interesting article about queens tested with 1005 accuracy to see if mated by using reflective spectroscopy. anyone able to rig a sensor???????? http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/54300520/412VisibleandNIRSdetectsqueenhoneybeeinsemination.pdf