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Had a call Sunday afternoon from an elderly lady who had a swarm arrive on Friday on the side of her driveway entrance pillar, bees gradually entered the pillar over the weekend. I went to have a look and it is a one and a half brick square pillar about 3' high with a concrete capping. There is...

First really warm evening of the year here in coastal Suffolk - sitting outside with a beer (as you do) have seen at least 5 individual stag beetles and maybe more - but they could have been the same ones flying past again! See one or two most years, Suffolk is one of their strongholds - always...

I have a pair of unopened washable yellow leather gauntlets size medium that came "free" with a beesuit from a well known supplier starting BB... If anybody would like them and can collect from IP4 area of Ipswich then they are welcome to them - send me a PM, first come first served! I am away...

I have a colony which was a large cast about 7 weeks ago, they have drawn 8 commercial frames, the queen is mated and laying well and they have plenty of stores. Today there is a large number of robbers all around the hive, the colony bees are coming and going and bringing in large loads of...

My bait hive on the roof at work attracted a swarm this morning, much to everyone's entertainment. Rich

...and other sage advice. Had a really informative talk on swarm capture at the local BKA a couple of weeks back - I thought the following might be of use given the recent absconding swarm threads. The beekeeper giving the talk has a clever way of preventing the swarm heading off to a location...

I thought it might be interesting to see what forage plants members have seen bees on this week - and maybe keep the thread going through the season if it works. The lists of forage plants in books always seem very brief and I am sure there are many other plants the bees are taking advantage of...

About 3 weeks ago my 2 hives felt significantly lighter when hefting so being my first winter I put fondant on both to augment the stores. The only ekes I had were a shallow one and one about 3" deep - at the weekend shredded cling film was being pulled out of both hives so I lifted the crown...

Hi All, Firstly thanks for the really useful forum to all contributors. Secondly a quick history - collected first bees as 4 frame commercial nuc on 26th April, expanded very rapidly and produced swarm qc's 27th May. Carried out AS next day, all went well. Saw a new queen in the original...