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Sell the matches in sets of four. James

Leave the car parked on the drive for a couple of years. The colony will likely have died out by then and the wasps and wax moth will clean up after them :D James

Moved one colony to my home apiary from the "leak" apiary this evening. It only just scrapes two miles away, but I'm going to gamble that it will be far enough given that we have apples and blackthorn in flower. I'd prop some leafy twigs in front of the entrance, but there's really not that...

What a nightmare! James

As it happens they weren't as bad as I expected. Probably decided it's too cold to come out and start a fight. The hive that had the flying bees had loads of queen cells (and a quite surprising number of bees, I have to admit). I tore down all but an open one with a nice fat larva in and...

I have to inspect the two "halves" of the hive I split last week today to see if they have queen cells. I don't expect to enjoy it. Our heating thermostat is set to 18°C and the radiators were warm earlier. Best crack on with it I guess. It's not going to get any warmer today. James

A timely post. I was just thinking that I should order some more gloves. James

There'll be a load of people in the audience who think "social media" is when you sit down with your partner in the evening to watch television. James

"The Social Media side of swarming" ?! So that's how they organise it all. Doing dances on Tik Tok? James

Some of our hawthorn is fully out. The next tree along might still have tightly-closed buds. James

Hyde Hives James

He couldn't really commit. He said that until they've actually dug around the pipe and had a chance to examine it, they don't really know how much work they'll need to do. James

I'm in touch with the engineer at Wessex Water now and he seems quite chilled about the situation and is happy that if they can't start on Monday then that's how it is, which is nice. The idea of moving them a bit every evening was mooted so that they're far away not to cause a problem, so I...

I've not had surgery. @rolande ? James

I have a hive barrow, so that's a start. And having moved the wrong box to the other end of my home apiary when I had a lapse of concentration last week (therefore having to move it back and then move the right one), I'm rather more familiar with the weight of an entire double brood colony than...

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/what-did-you-do-in-the-apiary-today.8543/post-902674 James

If you've read my other posts this morning, you'll know why :D When I've had to move hives previously I've always had time and could wait until there were no supers, perhaps even get the colony down into one box, so it wasn't really that troublesome. Now I need to do it, sharpish, when they're...

And the owner thinks there are blackbirds nesting in it now, so unless they're clearly not using it, they tree has to stay. I love it when a plan comes together. James

My Brucie Bonus is that the site I have access to that is (almost) three miles away has a tree fallen across the main entrance :icon_204-2: James

If this comes off at least I won't be paying, and it's for someone who can only stand for short periods and uses a wheelchair the rest of the time so I thought I'd offer a few options. James