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Not sure how these guys use the extract but interesting none the less http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04n6ysb

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BBKA.info/permalink/1375230325861785/

Opened a hive last week to perform some Regicide but the bees had already sussed the lazy thing out and were in the middle of succession. Loud piping from the Black Queen on the prowl with a cacophony of honking from 3 sealed QCs which I don't think I would have found if the noise hadn't been so...

What do the more experienced and commercial bee keepers do when it comes to merging colonies with a number of supers in situ on both colonies? Have a dilemma with a failing queen i would like to squish and merge the colony with a new punchy one. Both have supers which are busy at the moment.

After cutting the number of double colonies I manage and salvaging frames from winter losses i find myself with several boxes of frames full of stores. Admittedly some look like ivy honey but many are clean, clear stores, probably a result of over zealous feeding with invert last autumn. I am...

Well I have had the occasional badger attack but found something more insidious and worrying today. Cleaning up a couple of deadouts I removed the mesh to give them a good spring clean. The side of one base was particularly bad, but both had been attacked by larvae of some kind. Almost looks...

I have been suffering worsening behaviour amongst all of my colonies this year. It was just one hive to start with about a month ago and I am in fact in the middle of reQueening it due to hive from hell syndrome. This i thought at the time was due to the daughter of an orange queen which was the...

A big field of it being grown in Martinshaven, Pembs about knee high with glossy green leaves with either white or blue flowers. stems, leaves AND flowers covered in nasty spines. Striking things - almost out of a science fiction film

Two weeks ago one of my empty hives was occupied by a small swarm It covered only two- three frames and I assumed it was a cast. No queen seen Since then it has foraged and created a fair bit of honey and pollen stores Slowly building new comb. No laying visible at all at any point until...

Fantastic! http://www.dezeen.com/2013/05/06/skyscraper-for-bees-by-university-at-buffalo-students/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20667948#sa-ns_mchannel=rss

I was asked by my dentist today how to rescue a colony lodged in his tenant's cavity. The reason for the urgency is that he has to replace the roof next week which will involve disturbing the bees. He wants to try and save them if at all possible. The only thing I could think of was to transfer...

Just walked around apiary and spotted a load of activiity around bottom super of my original old wooden stack. On closer inpection it appeared that the super had split at the top bar, moving it out of line and allowing about a millimetre gap revealing lots of little heads and antennae madly...

In the seemingly narrower weather windows we seem to be having, does one dive in and inspect, or let the poor bees get on and make the most of decent flying weather? i am concerned that pulling the broodbox apart in "weekly" inspections in the few good days might actually be doing more harm than...