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Wishing you all a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year

You may wish to read this article about the effects of adulterating honey in India https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/the-honey-trap-74476

Has anyone used Beehive Bits lately? I have always used them for mesh for floors and galvanised roof covers. Their website no longer shows these as being available and efforts to contact by e-mail and phone have been in vain. Can anyone help, please?

Does anyone have a plan and/or pictures of a jig for assembling National boxes, please?

I note that others are having wasp issues this year. Mine all came to a head this week. On Sunday my beekeeping buddy said she had located a wasp nest in a disused hive. I have been having a series of eye operations and have been leaving Sylvia to check the hives in the main apiary. Monday...

Following my recent request for advice on the forum regarding whether I should remove the workers from a queen cage and a comments forum members made on a similar thread can anyone confirm their queen introduction procedure,pleas? Do You Leave the escort workers in the cage? When making a split...

I have a number of mini-Nucs that have lost or damaged see through plastic inner covers. Has anyone any suggestions where I can obtain sheets of thin clear plastic to make replacements?

I have always removed the attendant bees when introducing a queen to a new NUC. I was party to a discussion the other day that a beekeeper said that he never removed the attendants. Others said they did. I then read that it was always advisable to remove attendants and in another publication it...

I have used mini mating NUCs with very limited success over the years. If any of you are regularly successful can you provide any tips, please? Secondly can you say whether you use ripe QC or virgin queens?

I was called to the first swarm I have received this year on 14/04/22. The bees are in a disused chimney of a local farm house and the usual swarm cloud was milling about. As we watched they returned to their abode. Yesterday was obviously just the practice run. The householders are on alert for...

In today's Littlejohn Column of the daily mail he says that Small Hive Beetle is in Eire inported in bees from Italy. Do we know if this is true or has he mistaken all the recent hype for fact?

I received notification yesterday of the Festival of Bees that will be held around the country this July. Suffering from lack of stimulation, normally provided by the BeeTradex and a trip to Harper Adams I looked at the list of of exhibitors for the show at the Bath and West showground and was...

I was intrigued by B&S honey bee brood boxes and the built in splitter. Having read a book by leming B. Thorsen -'An efficient Production of Bee Colonies', I was all set to purchase several. Unfortunately they are sold out at present. Does anyone know of a supplier of a comparible product?

Did anyone read the article in yesterdays Daily Mail. I found it very enlightening. We all know that cheap honey is adulterated with syrups etc and then sold in our supermarkets at ridiculous prices. The article points out that more Manuka Honey is sold than produced and also that the number of...

People often ask for WBC Hive Plans I have attached a PDF

I have an order for WRC sat waiting for me in a timber yard in Monmouthshire. I live in a lowest tier area for Covid 19. Can any one tell me whether I am allowed to enter Wales to collect the consignment? Can I consider this as part of my normal beekeeping arrangements? When are the Welsh...

Has anyone used the RCOM Insect 70 incubator and got any advice

I have searched the site, unsuccessfully, to find information on suppliers of WRC. I always use a mill at USK but fear they may be in lockdown due to Covid. Can anyone suggest a supplier nearer to Buckinghamshire. I have potentially a large order for hives to fulfil this winter.

I have been approached by someone in my village who wants me to place a hive in his garden. He is prepared to pay for the initial hive and set up and wants to pay me a yearly retainer to manage the hive. Has anyone any advice on what I should charge for the retainer and any terms and conditions...

Two of my colleagues went to collect a swarm yesterday. The hive owner, I won't call her beekeeper, for reasons I am about to outline had two Flow Hives. She had purchased the hives and a London supplier supplied the bees and put them in the hives. She has never attended a beginners course She...