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got a visit on thursday from the seasonal man. only 2 days notice and he was quite rude to the wife. bit late in the year too imho. does anyone know how late they usually work?

I can get some icing sugar at a very good price so am wondering can I make my winter syrup up with it? Does the anti caking additive have any adverse effects? Thanks Baggy

Is anyone else collecting these? Have only 7 to finish my set and was wondering if we could set up a swap shop for them. Baggy

Hello all, definitive answear from Boston Enviromental health. As a food producer supplying food to third parties then you need to register with your local enviromental health dept. So far Boston Borough Council have one. Me. Says it all. baggy

Thanks to the lovely weather I sat down and looked at the comings and goings on Monday and lo and behold in one hive I saw drones coming and going. February I thinks! Not ruddy likely, so decided to get the hive tool out and have a look as I suspected last year that the colony was doing a very...

I remember somebody asking if there was any reasonably priced scales available that would have been trading standards approved. Well I have found some. My local fishmonger is shutting up (sad day for Boston as its the oldest shop in the town) and he has 3 sets of avery scales up for sale. No...

Friday was my one year anniversary of being a beek. Its had its ups and downs but I've learnt so much. Heres to the next year. :hurray: Baggy

holy hell someone is desperate! http://www.****************/auction.asp?id=1144&r=2121141111107102 270 quid for a 6 frame nuc. the seller must be over the moon

Further to my queenless hive, I purchased 2 mated queens which arrived last wednesday. Introduced them the same day to the main hive and a split, to hedge me bets. Inspected today as pollen going in to both hives. In the split I found eggs and the new queen doing her thing with perhaps 4...

Opened my hive today. Not a single egg and only a few drone brood hatching. The brood frames look as if they have been polished as they are shiny at the bottom but not a single egg, larvae or brood. If she has gone then it was before my last look 3 weeks ago to the day as drone are 24 days to...

Went into the local deli on saturday and they are selling some Manuka honey with labels on it from a beekeeper in Friskney, Lincs. Now I know that the NZ peeps really hate people claiming things that they are not. However, if he is buying manuka honey in bulk and rebottling it with his own...

I use two feeders on my hive. A contact 2.5lt one and a 2ltr entrance one. The difference in feed times are staggering. Even allowing for some robbing the entrance feeder goes in 4 hours whilst the contact one still has syrup in 3 days after filling. I thought they would be closer together than...

Yay! 50 posts, now I feel like a proper member! (ooer):svengo:

Have put the new queen I received this morning into the hive according to Ted Hoopers guide using the Butler cage. As there is virtually no pollen going in at the moment, would the first sign of acceptance be a massive increase in pollen coming in on sat/sun? I really dont want to open that...

So I picked up my nuc last Tuesday, hived it tuesday afternoon after leaving it a few hours not seeing the queen. Went through on Friday and saw no new eggs and queen cells being made. Told the supplier who are organising a queen for me. Went in today to see what was what. No eggs (no surprise)...