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Hi Guys I have a good friend living in Hayes that is desperate to buy some local honey. if you're close by and have a jar or two available could you let me have your contact details to forward on to her please? muchos grassiarse :thanks:

I've had 2 swarms arrive in my bait boxes over the last couple of weeks and there's simply too many bees in my garden at the moment. so.... IF you are a noob looking for your first colony you are welcome to one of them, but I stress that this is intended as a cheap starter, first colony for...

We've just moved to the area, anyone local/member of FoD beekeepers? Just wondering like :)

as per the thread title, I want 2 news queens and good temperament is most important MiniTaff has started coming to the bees with me so I need to improve the temperament of my colonies. any recommendations gratefully received :)

you chose your own word to insert there ;) life has got in the way of my beekeeping the last few weeks, as it does from time to time, and last week I hadn't yet taken off any honey so one of my hive was sitting with 2 partially filled supers and the other had 3 with the top one being fully...

in case you haven't seen these little blighters before.. and what they do to lilys :mad: I tried picking adults off earlier in the year but a. remembering to do it and b. actually having time to do it both seem to be a problem that has resulted in both of lily pots looking like the...

this is a colony that is headed by last years queen and overwintered ok (ish) on their own stores. at the beginning spring there was a little bit of poo staining around the enterance, but not so much that I was really worried, there was nothing on the frames or inside if the broodbox and they...

the last time that I looked into my hives was on the 24th Oct, 4 weeks ago give or take a few days. at that time they were both 3 weeks after having Apiguard removed, and while one queen was laying like crazy, the other only had a small patch of brood. I saw both queens and they looked fine...

these photo's have been taken today, this colony is good and strong with bees covering all the frames, it is Q+ and it was a combination of 2 colonies that were quite small and a small nuc, the combining was done at the beginning of August. They are now half way through Apiguard where the mite...

and think that you may have trouble with the off road bit at the end? then this may well be just what you need :D http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1996-RED-APRILIA-PEGASO-650-HAND-BUILT-SIDECAR-/160620132025?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item2565b4b6b9&clk_rvr_id=247828895972

as MiniTaff was showing me how to use the refractometer this afternoon.... I thought I'd share the view (mainly aimed at the newbeeks that may (or may not) be wondering what a refractometer may do for them :))

Hi, my colonies are in an orchard, not just a field with a couple of apple trees, but a propper huge agricultural orchard, and there are no neighbours within about half a mile of the colonies. four weeks ago, I invited a mate around to handle bees for the first time, he's done the courses...

always has the 'Murphy' element just waiting to go wrong :banghead: last saturday I did an artificail swarm, made absolutely sure, 100% that there was not a QC on the frame that was transfered, and I planned on checking that frame 4 days later for QC's. because I work away from home I'm away...

I currently have 2 colonies that I inspected for the first time today, well it was 19 degrees C :hurray: No1 is in a 14x12, has a reasonable amount of brood of all stages over 4 frames, a good number of bees, loads of pollen and stores, temperment today was a little bit tetchy and running...

people in Bristol, Bath, Wilts may be interested in this. I went into Marshfields bakery, located about 1 mile south of the M4 J18, this morning to buy a sandwich and they had piles of various sized buckets available for a charity donation of £1 for 25KG buckets and down to 25p for smaller...

you know what they say about the best laid plans...... nature is bound to throw them out of the window :banghead: at last weeks inspection, the nectar had seemingly dried up and the bees were a bit defensive, which is a first for one of the colonies so I planned to take all the supers off...

this is a shameless thread asking for sponsorship. :bigear: on Saturday 19th, I and a few others are taking part in a motorcycle endurance ride organised by the Royal British Legion Riders branch, all moneys will be going to the Poppy Appeal. the offical web page is http://rblr1000.co.uk/...

I had an empty nuc box at the back of my apiary, a neighbours bees swarmed this week and decided my nucleus box is a nice place to live, I have been talking to Foobaamagic for a while about sorting him out with some bees so I called him and asked him to come over and transfer them to his hive...