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Any other radio amateurs out there? I know there are a few..... Are there any "Bee Nets" on the airwaves? I'm not very active these days on the radio and mainly do data modes (PSK31 etc) anyway, but I'm sure I have a mic hidden away somewhere that I could plug in!

I'm interested in supercedure, and your experiences of it in the real world. Feel free to use any or all of the following questions as a starting point for discussion. I want to try and tap into the vast beekeeping experience on this forum to try and learn more about supercedure. How do you...

When inspecting one of my colonies today I found an egg in a queen cup. I did not destroy the egg, but I did poke my hive tool into the side of the queen cup to gain a better view of the contents. The colony in question was a nuc I bought about 6 weeks ago and since day one the queen (this...

I've had a few problems with one of my colonies... Lost the Queen :mad: They reared a new Queen :cool: She turned out to be a drone layer :mad: Some people have advised me to cull the colony because they probably won't accept a new queen, but I want to give them a chance at least! I've...

I had a colony that lost it's queen about 7 weeks ago. They produced queen cells and reared a new queen which emerged 4 weeks ago. During my inspection 1 week ago I saw eggs and some brood which looked like older drone larvae (I posted a thread about this) . I had another look a couple of days...

I have a small queenless nuc (it was a split I took off another colony and it did have a queen cell in, but the virgin queen - assuming there ever was one - has gone awol). It is only 2-3 frames of bees and has been queenless for nearly 7 weeks. It has no brood and the youngest bees are about...

Hi, I have a small nuc in need of a queen (they did have a virgin queen in but she has gone AWOL). Native dark bee preferred. Does not necessarily have to be a newly mated queen - if you are requeening I would even take your old queen as long as she is still laying (and not evil tempered of...

About 6 weeks ago I lost the queen from one of my colonies and they then created queen cells. Two virgin queens emerged 3 weeks ago and I split the queenless colony and put one in each half. I looked a week ago and there was no sign of eggs or larvae in either half of the original colony...

Have had my two nucs for two weeks and up until today everything was going so well... There are no eggs in one colony and there were two queen cells (with larvae and Royal Jelly in) on one frame. I destroyed the Queen cells and had a good look through the frames but could not see the Queen...

I have kept hens for quite a number of years but this year some of my Barnvelders which i bought as pullets last year have decided to go broody. Never had this problem before because I kept Rhode Island Reds and Black Rocks which don't seem to go broody. I've been told that dunking them in a...

Hi, I'm new to beekeeping and currently doing a preliminary beekeeping course. I'm intending getting two nucs this spring. My question is: Would I be better getting the two nucs from different sources (and thus have a bit of genetic variability in my bees)? Or would I be better to get both...

Hi all, I'm new to beekeeping and this forum. I'm doing a preliminary beekeeping course and hope to get some bees from my local beekeeping association later in the season, but I suspect demand for bees will be high and I'm really keen to get some bees as soon I can.:) If I can get a Nuc from...