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  1. alynewbee

    Moved my bees to ROTHERHAM - 187 miles!

    I've just moved house from Hampshire to Rotherham - 187 miles. My two hives did very well indeed on the back of a trailer and are now at the bottom of my garden and looking unconcerned. So - my question. Any members of Rotherham Beekeeping Association out there? Please say hi - it would be...
  2. alynewbee

    Newbee kneejerk reaction

    Hi All, Oh dear, just when I thought things were under control. I've just got one hive, and inpections have been weekly and all fine so far. But I have a very elusive queen. She was new last year and I've only ever seen her once and it was a pretty chilly day so I didn't want to take her out...
  3. alynewbee

    Lesson learnt the hard way

    Over winter I kept a spare brood box with drawn frames in my garage. Just stood it in a corner, no mouse guard on it - was planning to clean it all out but didn't get around to it. Imagine how cross with myself I am now. Night before last I heard scratchings in my loft. Looked in the garage...
  4. alynewbee

    Just made some beeswax and honey lip balm

    mmmmmm, feels lovely. Really pleased with how it came out. Followed the recipe I found by someone called Danielle on Youtube and flavoured it with the tiniest bit of lemongrass.
  5. alynewbee

    cleaning up wax from frames - how hard can it be?

    Hi all, As part of my move to 14 x 12 I have a lot of national brood frames that are pretty brown and manky so I set about cutting out and melting down the wax out of the frames. I chopped up the wax and put it in a washed out baked bean tin and put that in a pan of boiling water and waited...
  6. alynewbee

    Thank you bees for another sleepless night

    Three in the morning and I'm lying awake worrying about my bees (again!) so thought I'd seek advice. My question is should I worry about my bees swarming at this time of year? At last week's inspection I did the final bit of a combine I had been doing and removed the extra brood box. I didn't...
  7. alynewbee

    Winter Preparations and unuseable frames question

    Dear All, My bees are still foraging very well and filling up a super but I want to make sure I leave them in the best possible conditions for the winter, so would very much appreciate some advice. They are on 14 x 12 but they have very little in way of stores in the brood. There is a super...
  8. alynewbee

    I'm thinking my combine went ok, but .....

    Hi All, I think what I saw at today's inspection is probably ok, but I'd really appreciated the opinion of experience please. It's 8 Days since I did a newspaper combine. They'd chomped through all the paper and no pile of dead bees around so think that bit went okl. The top brood box...
  9. alynewbee

    Filtering honey advice please

    Hi All, I've extracted a super of honey (my first - Hurrah!) I borrowed my BKA's extractor. The honey was very runny so I filtered it straight out of the extractor through a double steel filter and it went through no problem. So now I have a bucket of honey that I want to filter more finely...
  10. alynewbee

    The dirty deed is done!

    Feeling sad, did a combine today and killed my old queen. She's now in my freezer as swarm lure for next year. :(
  11. alynewbee

    To combine, or not to combine?

    Hi all, I did an AS on my only colony a while back, the young queen bit of it is doing spectacularly well, the old queen bit not so good now. I'm thinking of combining but a little concerned that if I do then together they will be too big for the 14x12 box I'm putting them into. The new queen...
  12. alynewbee

    Bees changed their minds?

    Last week I had a gorgeous supercedure cell in the q+ part of an AS I had done the week before. It was open with a big fat larvae and lots of royal jelly. Reckoned I would be safe to have a quick peek today as if all was going to timing the cell should still be sealed and I wanted to check...
  13. alynewbee

    What are they up to here

    Dear All, I'm (not for the first time) a bit puzzled. On 20/6 I found two sealed queen cells and several others with larvae in. Did an artificial swarm as per Hooper. I removed the two sealed queen cells and marked the position of the two unsealed one. Both looked nice and big and juicy...
  14. alynewbee

    Bees not hungry?

    Hi All, I inspected my ladies yesterday and they seemed very light on stores, very little in the brood box (perhaps one frame total), a super barely drawn on top of that, and a super about 2/3 full on top of that. So I decided I'd dust off my new rapid feeder and give them some 1:1 syrup. As...
  15. alynewbee

    Wanted - Child's bee suit

    Hi All, Thought I'd try here before I go to fleabay. Does anyone have a child's bee suit (used) that they'd like to sell? It's for my boy who is about 5ft (and growing rapidly so bigger is better). I'm good with a sewing machine so could patch up any tatty bits. Many thanks Aly
  16. alynewbee

    Money Saving Tips for Beekeepers

    Hi All, In a different thread, I mentioned that I'd just bought a hive strap at an auction for £6 - to be told that I could have bought 2 for £2.50 from Tesco out of the motoring section! Does any thrifty beekeeper have any money saving tips they'd like to pass on? I'd certainly be most keen...
  17. alynewbee

    Found Her Maj, but how do I catch her?

    Dear Beekeepers, Thank you to everyone who posted in response to Poly Hive's thread about Queen Finding (and thank you so much Poly Hive for starting it off). I followed the advice (no smoke, looking at the dark side first) and I found her!!! I was thrilled - this being the first time ever...
  18. alynewbee

    Moving to 14 x 12

    I'm a new beek in my first season of bee keeping. I'd like to move my national brood into a 14 x 12. My current set up is OMF, standard national brood, QE, + 2 supers. Does anyone have any experience of doing this? I'm particularly wonding about: 1) what time of year is the best to do this...
  19. alynewbee

    Swarm Cells, Play Cups or supercedure?

    Hi All, I hived a swarm two weeks ago. At my first inspection 7 days later they had drawn all the comb in the bb and I swore I had no eggs. Must have been my eyes because this inspection (14 days after first hiving them), I have 6 frames of sealed brood, and they have gone up into the super...
  20. alynewbee

    Recording regular inspections on line

    Does anyone use any sort of online method to record the findings of their hive inspections? I'm sure I read something on here that a member had created but a search has not produced it. Many thanks Aly
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