Search results

had a day off today (honest one) to do a full set of hive inspections as at the weekend we were doing stuff for chickens chicks and the garden... and in a hive where we had a lovely couple of Queen cells, torn down about three weeks ago (+/-2 days) the bees are still twitchy (and so am-- i...

Hi All, After a conversation at work i would like ot know of a beekeeper in the swanage area who would be willing to offer help, advice and perhaps a bunch of bees - at a proce of course. person is gettign themselves together built and refurbished some hives and lookign at takignthe next steps...

Just another AFB warning, there was a person in Stithians in Cornwall who was importing European Honey to support his bee industry. For various reason all his stock is now sold but somewhere there is a residue of AFB Sadly in Cornwall it has had a large impact casuing a larger number of cases...

Just a heads up my local association has just sent round an email with regard to AFB being confirmed by the inspector - on the Lizard. Just when we only worried about the weather, food and varroa...

Ok we have tried our first mini nuc and sadly have the following obeservations. 1) You neeed numbers of bees, the boxes "should be three high with comb right down to floor level 2) You need at least 3/4 of this to be bees less than this robbing will happen and the cluster still gets cold. our...

We are looking to got some bees for our very maritime climate. we have a couple of orders in with a couple of locals... but are looking for some more to give the best genetic variety we can. we have gone miles away with one of the orders (Scotland and we will be meeting half way or something...)...

Sad one this … had a call from our local electricity distributer yesterday, and went out to attend a fuse box on a pole that had got bees in it - one glance from the repair man he had resealed and moved away quick. We got there at 5.30 opened up and found 10.000 dead bees, 3 big combs approx 10...

How many depend on or rely on for help on Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) please?