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Can anyone recommend a gauntlet glove... Bought some local to me but get stung through the cotton section

Do any of you alter prices for honey when its been a bad year?Neither local health food shop has any nor does local farm shop .Not in a rush to sell so what would be a fair price ? Ade

For Sale 25x Frames 300mm deep bottom. Flat packed No foundation. Been in shed so slightly discoloured but fine. Open to offers.....

Hi all , checked 1 of hives on sat morn plenty of sealed brood and larvae but no eggs .Q clipped and not swarmed .Had no qcs up till now.Super nearly full so added another on top of brood..1 qc not capped..Checked today and new super well on way .Top super which was almost full of stores now has...

Had to move hives today as the fruit farm where we had our bees was bought out by the Co.op and they said very bluntly " move them off our land!!!" Nice company bee-smillie

As posted last week i lost a nuc through robbing, my larger colony being next door.Have been still feeding syrup as mentor instructed , today i checked them and stores looking good but fed them some fondant to make sure as way too late for syrup i feel .Really enjoing this dry spell :banghead...

Hi started 2 hives this year, one from swarm and one from nuc.Started feeding mid sept and treated with Apisan at same time (mentors advice ) i personally thought this was too late .Fed twice a week till mid oct then have been checking and feeding once a week . Checked last weekend ,swarm had a...

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:nature-smiley-014: I was at the fruit farm where i have my bees this morn and noticed they have planted sunflowers on one patch , not that big but still a fair few and noticed bees over them like a rash...have put in a word to see if they would expand on this years patch size, anyone else have...

Just out of interest, do all beeks like honey ??? I love it :drool5:..Also the smell of a warm super with its honey and cedar scents need to replicated by Glade or suchlike...I would sit a super with its frames on the side in my lounge but think Mrs A. B 's may not agree:rofl:

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Out of interest ,as there are alot of posts regarding reactions to stings of late if you get stung by a bumblebee or wasp and have no reaction to worry about does this mean you should be ok with honeybee stings ?

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Who do you buy your jar label's from , only really looked at Thorne's

Just been to my local health food shop who's been there for around 30 year's and was chatting to him about honey, he sell's a local beek's own labelled honey for £6.20lb ... so £3.20 a jar that i will sell at is a steal!!! He said he will buy any honey that i have at full price so we all win:party:

Hi all , Out of interest how did you start the craft? Did anyone in your family pass it down or are you the first ? Im the only one but i'm odd anyway :party:

My mentor and i are moving our 4 hives on Monday eve if the weather is ok,where they are now is mainly O.S.R but once that's finished there's not much in the way of forage.. It will be interesting to see if we get pulled over as we will be dressed like we belong in space!!! but i'm sure pc plod...

Did anyone see Kate ( i know it all ) Humble with her bee's on Tuesday's show? They showed her first inspection of this year on her colony which she started from a nuc last year and there were deformed bee's caused from varroa...i might be barking up the wrong tree but if these were treated in...

Collected a swarm from a friends colony last night and put them in my second hive last night , checked them this afternoon and they have collected stores and drawn 4 new frames to the point where the comb almost meet !!! Amazing stuff ..... God i love my girls:party:

Has anyone got any advice on how to set up a camera on the entrance to one of my hives?Where to buy and how to set up etc etc.Was hoping to have my first 2 hives in my garden but moving in a couple of weeks and new house only has a small garden so hives being sited about 1 mile away. :)