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  1. Busy Bee

    Pesticide Ban!!

  2. Busy Bee

    Oxalic Acid... How many...

    I have hives which had a large mite drop 000's & 000's, would it be advisable to do treatment again? or leave well alone at this stage. P.S. Dark Bee colonies had 000's of mites on the drop and hy-brid colonies had very few, thought I would throw that into the mix.. Busy Bee
  3. Busy Bee

    Queen rearing

    Not much point having a queen program considering the weather is not much above 12C and no end in sight! Busy Bee
  4. Busy Bee

    Help SINUS

    Hello Does anyone have any sound advise on how to cure SINUS. Busy Bee
  5. Busy Bee

    Mead Recipe

    Hi, Did a search on mead in the forum but it came up with 1 answer with little or no reference to making the gear. Does anyone have a mead recipe? Busy Bee
  6. Busy Bee

    Botulism in Infants casued by Honey.....

    What causes the illness? Infant botulism is caused by the food poisoning bacterium Clostridium botulinum. This is the same bacterium that causes the food poisoning known as "botulism". Spores of these bacteria are ingested by the infant, grow and produce a neurotoxin (i.e. poison) in the...
  7. Busy Bee

    Swarming Hives

    Hi did inspection on all my hives to find swarm cells in every single one even the mated queens from April.... Had to break down QC's for now but will need to do something in 5 days I have only empty nuc's but I don't want the hives to swarm as I want the honey? Yes AS would be the answer but...
  8. Busy Bee

    Killer Bee!! Beware

    :iagree:
  9. Busy Bee

    Hard to Believe!

    Hello People, It's hard to believe but I have 2 hives which I sort of neglected until further time to sort both of them. They had swarmed sometime around 18-24th April, virgin queens resident 28th April, hives just sat and done nothing, queens not mated and what I thought went stale...
  10. Busy Bee

    Honey has set.

    Need help on how to get honey back to liquid form, I suspect it is OSR. Busy Bee
  11. Busy Bee

    Honey Cake Recipe Needed

    Would anyone have a Honey Cake recipe, Please. Busy Bee
  12. Busy Bee

    Swallows are sealing their future

    Hi This evening for the 1st in quite a while I noticed a large contingent of swallows availing of my flying bees and by this I am not impressed. Busy Bee
  13. Busy Bee

    Re-Queening Virgin

    Hi, If you have a suspect virgin queen in a hive how can you re-queen with a mated queen without getting to complicated? Busy Bee
  14. Busy Bee

    Weather

    Today was the 1st day since mid-april my bees took to the air. Hard to believe but they flew like it was 1st flights of the year. Maybe better honey weather to come as the girls have comsumed all the spring honey :banghead: Busy Bee
  15. Busy Bee

    Honey Taste

    I took some honey from the bees and it has a toffee after taste, has anyone any idea, I have never tasted this stuff before. Busy Bee
  16. Busy Bee

    Queen Excluder Size

    I was recently speaking with some bee keepers and have been lead to believe that yes some QX's are different sizes and this is not neccessarily a mistake. I was informed that 3 sub-species of worker honey bee won't fit through the space which are the Russian, Irish Black and the French Black...
  17. Busy Bee

    Drones being EVICTED!

    Yesterday some of my hives where evicting drones in a considerable number, I inspected to find the colonies starving:ack2: and instantly placed a gallon of light thymol syrup on each hive.....Long range forecast says weather is not to improve much with temps around 12-14c til at least...
  18. Busy Bee

    Swarming Hive

    Hi, I carried out a hive inspection and upprehended the queen as the hive have several swarm cells. I carried out an AS not problems. Now a week later I inspected the new BB and to my surprise I got a new swarm cell in the new BB, which I removed until another inspection. However I carried...
  19. Busy Bee

    Not Drawing Super Comb

    Hello All, I have a hive of dark strain bees I receieved last year. Now they built up very slow but grew into a a full brood. I placed a super of undrawn super comb above them to expand, but no never even went in. I placed 2 frames of half filled honey comb and 2 frames of drawn super comb...
  20. Busy Bee

    Drones in super

    Can't understand drones in super, are they able to get through QX as there are no brood in super a HM is where she is suposed to be? Busy Bee
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