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Hi Jazz Glad you were able to get hold of a colony in the end and it sounds as if you're immersing yourself in your bees - I'm sure I don't need to warn you how addictive they become! good luck :)

Hi if you're still looking, please check out my listing under for sale

I'm moving in June and unfortunately won't be able to take my bees with me, so selling. The colonies were assessed by the regional bee inspector in September and given a clean bill of health, they have been treated with Apistan in the autumn, all came through the winter and are building up...

Hi Jazz beekeeper, currently 6 colonies on the Gateshead / Durham / Northumberland border and would happily be involved in your plans but I'm in the process of moving countries so selling up after 20 odd years of beekeeping (Hexham Beekeepers Association currently and would recommend to you)...

I would if I could get messages to work..

Unfortunately mine is already jarred and I'm not about to empty 120 jars back into buckets. He's after bulk for cheapness, I think happy to sacrifice finesse

Honey wanted! I'm asking for a friend who's looking for between 15 and 30 kg of local honey for a project he's involved in. Mick is making some rhubarb and honey braggot ale in conjunction with Newcastle university, where I think brewing is used as a project for chemistry students. They've made...

I think Finman is right, it probably was a high varroa load that disproportionately affected larger colonies as two smaller ones and an overwintered nuc are doing fine. My fault as I had an all clear from the local inspector in September, one colony only showing varroa, didn't treat after that...

3 out of 6 overwintering colonies lost, the worst for 15 years for me. I'm torn between varroa load too high despite winter OA treatment and failing queens. I have noticed fewer queens survive the second winter recently but this is worrying me. Any ideas?

A friend is signed up and it appears kosher, she uses it as part of a wider bee education campaign in schools so no bad thing. I looked into the monitoring system and the prices are a little off-putting (!), she uses it to demonstrate what's going inside the hive and is able to use the readouts...

I had a lovely conversation with a worker in an 'ethnic' shop in Newcastle about the perfect and huge filled frames they were selling. He was Kurdish, had been a beekeeper before needing to leave urgently (I didn't ask why) He was very interested in my honey and how I extracted it and dismissed...

wonderful things, dummy boards, with loads of uses: one to take out first with few bees on, creating the gap that means you can slide the frames before lifting - otherwise you'd be lifting the frame vertically with only the beespace - lots of bees disturbed, rolled and annoyed, the risk of...

and they are the official sponsor of the olympics..... did Seb Coe not see any irony there?

not at all - I naively hope there should be a way of differentiating between the majority of the forum members who do give a damn and those, whether commercial or not, who don't care long term about the nucs they are passing on. If this forum can provide a gatekeeping role for sellers then that...

there is a huge difference between a commercial operation that buys in nucs from eastern Europe @ £50 by the hundreds, brings them in on the back of a transit and then sells them on in the UK for £150, compared to a beekeeper that passes on splits and swarms that he/she worries over, provides...

I checked on a couple of hives - queen went despite what was, I thought, a standard AS - must have done something wrong! Taxi'ed some of my kids to and from Saturday jobs, made lunch and sympathised with the post exam kids... walked the dog....picked 2 bags of oak leaves which are now on step 2...

I think queen cells produced 2 weeks running despite discouragement means they are determined to head for the hills. it just takes one missed QC - I'd hedge my bets and AS sooner rather than later, all your mate needs to do then is move one hive to the other side of the original's location 7...

consensus view is yes for the next 6 minutes.....

Hi Bryan to defend RAB (not that he needs it!) its still Saturday the 26th here..... If you did the AS this afternoon - and it sounds as if you did it right - its too early to worry, I think, the bees are settling down and fanning to draw in any lost bees :) You have the old queen with all the...

Hi Phayze I don't think I'd feel confident enough after a few years of beekeeping to rely on hearing my queens piping and make decisions based on that - especially if you are new it might be safer to go down the artificial swarm routes? the risk you are taking by leaving a lot of Q cells is they...