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Caught this fellow this morning snooping round one of my hives. I'm assuming its am European Hornet,but it looks stockier than most of the pics. PS Nothing brave about these pics it had an hour in the freezer first.

So taking inspiration from another thread altogether. What silly mistakes have people made this year that they wont make again? To start the ball rolling Put a clearer board under two supers which happened to contain a few frames i had my eye on for "Frame ready for extraction" at our branch...

Have lost one of my colonies to wasps. When opened up this evening I was met by the sight of a box full of wasps, if I had to guess at numbers it would be well in excess of 500. I had reduced the entrance down to about an inch but still they succumbed. This colony had recently lost its queen...

A quick question to those in the know, How long can a virgin stay a virgin before its too late to be mated? Reason for the question-- Long story but i managed to get a virgin queen stranded on the wrong side of a queen excluder, according to my notes and calculations she could have been there...

Cut a long story short, I have a colony that im 99% sure is hopelessly queenless. I have put a frame of eggs and young larvae in to test this. Now assuming they are queenless i understand they will try to raise a queen from this frame, i think correct me please if im wrong that in 3 or 4 days...

Sure enough the bees in the top box have made new queen cells as expected. As an insurance policy i have taken one of the frames with a cell on and put in a nuc along with a frame of bees and a frame of food, will report on these in a few weeks. The bees who were shaken onto the new foundation...

Well the two nucs out on the farm are doing well and have moved into 14x12 boxes using the converters available from Thornes. Both seem to be building up well and the field/orchard is a mass of buttercups at the moment. Had a bit of a drama when the farmer who owns it moved his calves there to...

This blog hopefully will serve as a record of my bee keeping exploits this year. I started Bee keeping last year 2008 by joining my local association and signing up for their free bees scheme. I got my nuc towards the end of June so only had a short time to bring them up to strength for the...

I was given a bee book recently (my family have learnt now if they dont know what to give me for myy Birthday that a bee book will do nicely) Unfortunately its quite americanised, though that was one of the things i found interesting. The Americans though we know put quite a few dollars into bee...

Just for ifo Lidl currently have a pack of 4x 5m ratchet straps packed along with 4 x 2.5 m clamp straps for ?8.99. Im sure they will not be as good as a Thornes Hive strap but at that price i'm not sure I care. David

What it says in the title David

Why Some Men Have Dogs And Not Wives: 1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you. 2. Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name. 3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor. 4. A dog's parents never visit. 5. Dogs agree that you...