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Hello is that Robbie yes we have a swarm in the centre of a round-a-bout a what oh ok , can you come out its been there two days. Off I go skep in back of truck along with suite and smoker. A nice looking swarm all over the direction light. I get to within 3 feet and they all take to the air...

Hi I have some honey from 2 years ago its build crystals in the jars I have warm some jars and its gone but my question is was it just the year or perhaps the forage the bees were on the honey has a very lemony taste. I have some three year old and its still fine and clear along with last years...

I bought 8 new Q/E form a supplier it seems that the hole size was wrong I found lots of dead bees stuck half way between both sides the nurse bees seem to go to and fro ok but forage bees seem to be stuck? so be carful if you buy from a fragile place you may unlike are bees come unstuck. After...

Well just got back from looking at the girls, the dead queen I found on the grass was out of hive 2 when we open it up today we found 37 Q/C in different stages, by Hec they have been busy now what should I do with all these Q/C any ideas. They are AMM's black as your hat...

Quick visit to hives today to top up feed in small nuc? on the grass was a small pile of bees 100/150 on further inspection a queen we marked 2 months ago was dead in the middle of them, I removed the queen and the bees flew off. Not sure if it would be a cast swarm and they just overheated...

Hi all an odd thing happen yesterday, we have had a very small hive with three frames of bees and a last year queen. I notice on wed eve quite a few bees going in and out looks like they were robing. Oh well never mind? Went up to cut grass on Thurs and thought have a quick look to my surprise...

:calmdown: My 2nd swarm this year 20' up in a Small Oak nice swarm about 20,000 ish

We check our hives on Sat every one had sealed queen cups in them we have put all our hives on double brood boxes and there is plenty of room in them all including supers with free space. Has anybody else had this happen? Not sure what we should do we knock down quite a few and split two hives...

I had some wax boards from Fragile Planet and the bees are not pulling it out but building their own coomb on top of it. Has anybody else had this not sure if they spray a chem on the wax????????????bee-smilliebee-smilliebee-smillie

I wonder if anybody could tell me please, last week we put two frames of sealed brood into a weak hive from a very strong hive we inspected yesterday and it seems some of the grubs are not in the cells corectly almost poking out as if the cells are to shallow for the size of the grub. The queen...

Last week I spent 2 hours removing some venting from the wall only to find that the cavity has been sealed with a rubber soultion. Now I want to try and remove by a drifferent method, I have set up a tube from the entrance to a bait hive I have a port escape on the hive to stop the returning...

Well at last manage to check all 8 hives 7 queens still marked and 1 not marked we last ckecked No 4 hive in Oct when it had two queens so looks like Mums been housted. I spoke to a friend of mine this morning he has lost all 6 of his hives during the wintre plenty of stores but hives fuul of...

I had a call today from a lady in Plymouth COME QUICK my kicthen its full of bees help, on arrival her kicthen was full of insects hover flys I have never seen so many??? After a cup of tea a hairdryer and hover we manage to clear the room, What a start to my third year of bee...

I attended my business meeting last Wed and a new roofing material has com onto the market its flexi rubber I have given the company a hive roof and they are making me up a pattern 10 years garentee I will post picture next week>:judge: Robbie

A big thank you to all at BiPco for arranging the Bee improvement day at Dobwalls Cornwall the information on queen rearing and the guest speaker Catherine Thompson of Leeds University talking on ferral bees was outstanding. Lots of great information, people from Devon & Cornwall turned up and...

I made candy for the first time today can't seem to get it to set followed the recipe in the BBKA latest mag any ideas to help. Robbie:thanks::thanks::thanks:

Hi Guys, just wondered if there is a quantity of candy that should be given to hives I have pop in one 1/2 lb tub per hive due to the bad weather hefting is a bit difficult here in sunny Cornwall I think not!!:sorry::sorry:

Can a hive over wintre with no queen but lots of bees and stores? its on a double brood???

We checked our hives on Sat only to find that hive (4) stiil has two queens and this week they were next to each other on the same frame. We seem to have lost our queen in the big hive, hive (1) for the second week there are no eggs or grubs we do have a Q/C with a grub in it. My question...