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Hello, Very regrettably I have to sell our lovely bees. I am still allergic to the sting, I do carry an Epipen, and am still on a course at the hospital, but am just too nervous to go back to them after the anaphylactic shock incident!!, and seems completely unfair to ask my partner to do all...

Hello, Just wondering if anyone observes their barometer reading when checking their bees? We usually go on what is going on outside at the time we would like to go and check them, general good weather = good bees, etc. I just wondered if anyone knows of the best or worst pressure (Mbars) to...

Hello, This is our first year storing our frames so naturally we will have done it wrong, and hope to learn. At present they are in our downstairs shower room, where it is quite cold. As the shed is not an option. Anyway we now have, as we would have expected, ants! Some of the frames and...

Hello, I was hoping to hear from anyone else who has been on the immunology programme and will be going back to their bees, this season of previously. I have completed my eleven week weekly jabs and three months of monthly jabs, I am now on three monthly jabs. I have now little reaction at the...

We have a super mostly full of ivy honey from last year, thoughts on putting on top of our brood and a half with a open crown board separating?

Hello everyone, Quick question, my partner was passing our hive today and there were bees buzzing about, they were busy and there were 'loads' he said. I am wondering if we should stick some fed in there? We are operating a brood and a half and when we left it end of the year they had a super...

Ok, I have searched on the internet for best way to remove ivy from your house... and really did not find much that worked very well...Apart from this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hze8nY3S4Is SO funny!! :smilielol5: I thought I would ask here on the beekeeping forum as you seem to have...

Good Evening, My bee sting desensitisation programme starts Tuesday... Does anyone else have any experience of this? :D My partner has been loooking after the bees with instruction from me, I am a 'sofa beekeeper' at the moment :( Many thanks

Hello, We recently used Hiveclean on our darlings (3rd October), and was told that would not be enough... Anyone know if we can also use a packet of Apiguard this week as well...? Too soon. Plan a) Just Hiveclean this year Plan b) Hiveclean and Apiguard this week Plan c) Hiveclean and...

Hello, Any thoughts on how to properly understand this time table: Link to open larger and clearer here: http://www.devonbeekeepers.org.uk/downloads/BeeTimetable.pdf

Hello, One year in... and we have squashed our first queen, accidently removed our second queen, had a DLQ and let our bees choose the strongest from QC... hence we are not our bees favorite people right now. We seem to have an aggressive hive, they follow too much and go for stinging straight...

Hello hello, Are we all well? I haven't been near the hive for a few months now as I am getting on a programme for being allergic to bee stings, however my partner is taking care of the bees till I can return next May. On recent inspection of the hive, we were expecting the bees to have been...

Thought I would share... This guy seems to have bread verroa cleaning bees http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011tz4m/Springwatch_2011_Episode_7/ Episode 7 at 45:30 minutes Thoughts...?

-- Update -- Ok called the bee inspector, she seems to think slight verroa and re queening. We looked last night and took some more pictures, we saw: * Queen eggs, laid bottom cells * More bees * Covered worker cells - which we opened and saw pearly white grubs (YAY) we checked a few and saw...

Hello, I was looking for posts like this before but decided to ask again and see if I could get some more advice from you lovely people. I have been stung only once before on the leg which turned into a small lump. Last evening a bee go into my hood and stung me on the ear, I got itchy hands...

Hello everyone, I am new here and very excited to talk to you all about bees and hear any help or advice you have :) This is our hive: Super 1 - nearly full waiting for bees to cap Super two - added recently - bees found and drawing QX Shallow brood 1 Deep brood 2 Our bees went crazy mid...