Search results

I guess I’m coming to the end of my autumn sugar syrup feeding, as 12kgs have been readily taken up so far and also judging by the weight of my hive when hefted (although I must admit to not having much experience of hefting hives!). :blush5: I suppose now is the time to start thinking about...

This is my first beek winter. Temperatures here in Burgundy, France can drop well below minus 20°C. Until I came here, I hadn’t ever heard of the idea of providing colonies with extra winter protection by wrapping them. Recently I read that wrapping may in fact be detrimental to the bees...

This is my first season and I now only have one hive. I started feeding my bees on 18th September, at the rate of 1kg of sugar to 1 pint of water per feed, in a Miller-type feeder. All seemed to go very smoothly as the bees took up their feed at an astonishing rate. I regularly found the...

This is my first season and so I have lots to learn! Having removed the second hive body from my two colonies, I have ended up with a couple of leftover deep frames of honey. I have no extractor and it doesn't seem worth the trouble anyway extracting so few. My feeling is that I may as well...

I have a question: today, I noticed some of my bees rather stumbling about outside the front of their hive and, on closer inspection, I noticed that their wings were deformed and that as a consequence they couldn't fly. Unquestionably a disease of some kind, but which one of the many? Any ideas...