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We quite like Osr, a bit bland prehaps, but very sweet. We have lots of coustomers who request it, and also coustomers who request anything but it. Proper marmite factor. I wonder if they effect polination contracts? I heard once of a beekeeper who took their bees to polinate an apple...

Hello Hivemaker. Were you selling in 12oz jars or 1Lb jars. ;-). Or is it more like 50gal drums knowing you....

I agree with many, leave them if you can, but Removal options are (have done all three) 1.Cut out, I was able to remove inside plaster board wall has house was being renavated and not lived in. Very mesy but colony came through winter. Could also be done from outside with scaflod and a...

Thanks everyone. Bees moved last night and still buzzing when we left them. Thanks again Pat

So you think we should just move them? The outside temperature shouldn't matter? Pat.

Hello, I'm in the process of moving house and need to move our two garden hives about 15miles to our new house. I have been told we shouldn't move them when they are clustered as if they fall off the frames they will too cold to climb back up. Is this right and if so are there any suggestions...

I have had this with a few swarms. my guess is they swarmed because the queen was on her last legs, now set up a new home and about to peg it breeding new Q cells to replace. weather they will sucseed or re swarm, who knows. I would go through, find the queen squash her and let one Q cell...

Hi Beeno, I started this for the first time last week, posted a thread on here with a discription of how i did it along with photos. http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18702 went back last night and took away a 6frame poly nuc packed with bees. there had been little - no bees...

you could devlop a method for trapping out. you could end up with no honey crop and possibuly even killing a coloney off though. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDephTEiqnU for some ideas. put a cone on the front of one hive with a bait hive set up with a frame of eggs to collect the...

I like the thinking, I was told once that wax moths don't eat wax, just the old bits of lining inside the cells. hence why foundation dosn't suffer. not sure If that's right though. and certainnly worth trying. I'll make sure the sealinng mesh has big enough holes to allow wax moth in, i...

Hi Susbees How would a pest controller safely seal an airbrick after poisoning?The pest controler would use wire gauze to seal the air brick, only need to be bee tight, not air tight.... How would the nuc rob it out? My plan was that when the Nuc was strong enough and the chimney weak...

Not sure, If the pestman was dealing he would poison, seal and leave the wax in place. If the chimney was open a sweep will deal with it if the brood and honey are gone.. if I let the nuc rob it out at least the wax will be dry. The chimney is all blocked off (brick at the bottom and...

Hello I thought I would post these photos of a trap out I have in progress. The house is owned by an organnisation whose pest controler didn't want to kill the bees off, we both agreed we want scafold to seal the chimney how ever we delt with it. So the owners are paying for the scaffold to...

Plastochrome Gloves, thick, strong, so far even with my devil hive (requeening in progress) sting proof, on one ocassion I had about 30 stings in the glove but none through to me. Still agile enough to pick up one drawing pin and push into a frame to mark it. even completed queen marking to...

fair point RAB but little capped brood sugests open brood possibuly with varroa allready in. would treatmeant effect these mites? or the open brood?

how many frames fo you ls hives take? 12? am i on the right lines

with lots of bees and little brood now would be a good time for a shook swarm, they'll need feeding like crazy, and keep them to what they can cover single brood box? polly nuc? we did this on one of ours three weeks ago, they have now drawn 7 frames and have laid up 5 of them. we also left 2...

thanks redwood, seems I'm thinking too much again, keep is simple. sounds good.

cut out comb, dip in boiling water. This will wreck you saucpan (well cover in wax and propolis) I have been advised to wash and us a flame thrower (gas gun) to steralise. never tried but seems easier. if you are small scale worth considering that a new frame is about £1 each so £11 to...

A few days a ago we did a shook swarm on a hive (I know maybe too early but varroa count 180 in a week and weather still good by the sea here). We froze the brood for 3 days to kill the brood and varroa. all fine up to this point. we now have 5 frames of frozen brood comb filled with dead...