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Our local BKA is setting up a teaching apiary in an old apple orchard. There was a plum tree but with the gales over the winter its gone now. Q is which type of plum tree to plant. Looking for extrafloral nectaries as well as pollen from flowers. Any suggestions guys?

I know we all use refined white sugar at some stage in our beekeeping and was trying to get local supermarkets to keep spills and breakages for our local association. However, I've had an offer of a supply of "raw sugar" from a food and drinks manufacturer that use it in lemonade type products...

I was making a pitch to a local council manager a couple of weeks ago, how the Borough Council is spending £10,000s per year on plantings around the Borough and it would make sense to plant honeybee friendly plants as part of their existing programme. Just got any email offering a meeting with...

Looking for 2012 and 2013 if anyone can help? Thanks

Hey guys, winter is coming, and on to the projects ... Starting to collect items to build a banjammer (banjo dulcimer) and looking for some ebony or rosewood for the fretboard. Doesn't have to be to size as I can plane it down but needs to be 28-29" long by 3" wide minimum. Needs to be a...

Only 3 weeks to exam date!!!! No-one panic :hairpull:

Q is about wiring frames vs buying wired foundation Price difference on 200 sheets is approx £130 less by my reckoning (un wired vs wired) cost of eyelet and wire not included. Anyone use eyelets and wire their own frames. Overhead in labour would seem to be first preparation of frame (but...

As I mentioned in another thread, I had used Pete's design of mini nuc this year for queen rearing. As I only really use a 10" table saw (without having to juggle loads of stuff around in the garage) I wanted to speed up production for next year, so I made a body 3 nucs wide side by side with...

I've never been to Devon. If I ever do get the opportunity, one place I would love to visit is with Pete (Hivemaker) to see his operation. Like many on this forum, Pete has been very helpful over the past couple of years to me in my beekeeping adventure. I'm on my hols just now in Tennessee...

I worked with 7 of Hivemaker's design mini nucs this year for queen rearing, just feeling my way, but got great results and will be doing a lot lot more next year. Thanks Pete for sharing your design. Already built another 8 and will do more over winter. Problem this year was getting enough bees...

I've been watching the fireweed this year since I learned what it was. At what point do you move your hives to the fireweed? Just before it starts to flower, or once it is flowering? How long does it last for yielding? 3 weeks or longer? Any differences with altitude? For example, the place I...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11113964 http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/9085196/Industry-knew-of-manuka-fake-risks Seems tests have shown some of what is labelled as Manuka and sold for silly money isn't actually what it claims. Personally, I...

Does anyone use one? What are your experiences? I was thinking of building one over winter to use for collecting young bees for mini nucs. Looked at example on Dave Cushman's site. Anyone got pictures / plans of theirs?

My old granny always said, "You learn something new everyday." That is surely true of bees and beekeeping, although some of it isn't always right! Just a thread to illicit what pearls of wisdom (or matchsticks of myth) you learned today from the bees. Brother Adam said let the bees teach you...

Had a mini nuc robbed out by wasps I brought home from out apirary a week ago. I thought it was empty and the wasps had totally cleaned it. Opened it today to find about 10 bees and what i think is a virgin queen, about 2-3 weeks old. My question is, can I either cage her and a few of those...

Taking the missus to Nashville for our 25 th wedding anniversary, then driving through E.Tennessee and N.Carolina on way home. Anyone know where I could get a contact or two in the area, would really like to see our US cousins in operation.

Was reading yesterday that Swan are changing the diameter of their matchsticks, so now may be the time to stock up to prevent over ventilation with the newer stock. Don't say you didn't get the news in time.

Someone seems to be cuTting and pasting guff into numerous posts :ban:

After a bad winter (loosing 2 out of 3 colonies, and remaining one only starting to build up now :hairpull:) I thought I'd try my luck with a couple of bait hives on top of the shed and garage. Went to Kent for a week (you guys in the South are so blessed to have a bit of heat!), came back to...

Beekeepers are ever the optimist ... My local bakery gets caramel in 12.5kg plastic tubs with lids. These are heavy-ish grade and i can't tell the difference from the ones you buy on e bay for honey storage use. Any problems giving them a good wash and using them for honey storage, even if the...