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Due to upset neighbours and politics we have a reluctant sale of some kit that all started life at Th----- therefore good quality. Kit consists of; Three traditional white painted WBC hives with colonies One traditional white painted WBC hive - no bees. One National deep brood hive - gabled roof...

Bad reaction to sting from SWMBO rushed to hospital for treatment kept in for 24 hours! She insists not a problem - duh think it might be - Neighbour came forward and stated she was hospitalised last year as a result of bee sting in garden but wouldn't complain. Regardless of what she says SWMBO...

just in from inspecting five hives, one appears to have several capped Q cells on one frame. I had assumed that the queen will have gone as they are capped but reading the forum I should go look for the queen and then perform AS if she is there. Is it correct that she could be? If she is not I...

We have some large Yew trees on the property and I noticed today the clouds of pollen coming from the trees like smoke. Question is does the Yew interest the bees?

Up to the apiary what did we see? One hive pictured with just tracks, next hive pictured obvious mutation of the doorway to the point of opening the slide! Any thoughts apart from buy a camera alarm?

Not sure what I am looking at here any opinions would be appreciated even 'go read a book' I have. No sign of a queen or any eggs so put in a test frame with eggs visible (must have been good light cos I generally can't see them, but then my mentor said its the little tiny white...

Swarm taken last night, happy this morning applied feed in the form of syrup, thanks G. I have read that this is an ideal time to treat with oxalic acid to cause drop down of any varroa mites on the bees before the mites enter the soon-to-be-laid brood - the only place the mites can breed. I...

In the market for a couple of good quality/condition WBC or National cedar hives if any knows of any please drop me a pm.

No queen on one hive today and one tiny little queen cell! One can see unsealed grubs and what look like sealed grubs but is then the cell has been capped below it's rim! One line of thought was that these could be pollen cells. Whatever not a good day in the apiary for either myself or my...

One hive seemed to be a lot quieter than it was a few weeks ago, so we looked for the queen and found nothing. Last Wednesday we introduced two frames of eggs and larvae. Well I had a look today and to my eye there is no sign of building queen cells, if, and it is if, I am right the test frame...

My bees are on OSR and I seem to my untrained eye to have the following on three hives; First hive with 2 brood boxes top brood box looks like capped honey as done first super next super has uncapped honey and top super not a lot. Second hive seems ok super has uncapped honey Third hive (which...

Apparently a national newspaper ran a story stating that there are now so many beekeepers that has resulted in bees now starving because there is not enough food to go round.

The question was asked should a newbee endeavout to get stung before keeping bee's some time back! This gave rise to some debate. Just for the record I got my first sting today and although previous stings by wasps have blown me up like a ballon the bee sting has cracked me between the eyes and...

Duh! under my biggest colony I had a tennis ball size cluster of bees just wrapped together on the ground! This morning I have the same cluster and a couple more although smaller.............getting ready to swarm? Or something else, any ideas? By the way the first bright day in weeks was...

Hi Folks I had the following message from a friend who lives a scant half a mile from my own apiary the difference in attitude of the bees is incredible as I am sure you will agree; This is the message from my fellow beekeeper; Hi Michael, I checked my feeders today and found all the sugar had...

Heres what happened today in the sunshine..........by the way its raining again! I first opened up the new hive which is home to the bees that swarmed from one of the others a couple of weeks ago. I had placed a feeder on this hive above the brood box, no super. Half of the syrup had been taken...

Had the swarm in borrowed National today wanted to switch to my own WBC for permanent home. Opened up all ok but no stores and precious little else except the bees, spotted queen but she then ducked round the frame and could not spot her again! Hive open long enough I thought so what to do? Put...

Can anyone tell me where these feeders are placed in the hive please? I assume it is on top of brood box and supers and covered by the crown board. Do the holes in the crown board then need blocking. It's been so cold we have been warned of starving bees, want to have a feeder ready if I can...

My neighbours dog has eaten my chickens! Shotgun time! grrr