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Grockles? Good to see you are respectful of your customers!

national hives all cedar, metal roof, openmesh floor ,2 supers,,castellated spacers in bb and supers £100 north of derby

Zap the wasps with killer foam ,narrow the entrance.weather isnt good give them a feed. . Dont worry the bees are designed to survive, but a little help will be welcome

I ordered some 8oz jars from a Cornish packaging company they sent 5 oz jars They said the manufacturer told them you could get 8oz of honey in these jars because its 'Heavier' wHAAT!!

thanks for all the advice guys much appreciated

brood box with castellations for spacing frames

I need to scale down I've got a quantity of surplus kit What is a fair price for a second hand sterilised cedar hive excellent condition? om floor brood box (castellated) super (castellated) crown board roof (metal) Nationals

well if they're faulty they're a bugger of a price

Same story Demareed hives earlier in the season 3 hives with more than 1 qc , queens all present , this years queens, eggs also present 3 AS's conducted, will reunite in a few weeks hopefully on a benign late September day

Ok now I know plenty about glass Thanks

Ive got a few pounds of honey at 22% water content would you feed it back to the bees .Diluted or undiluted ?

Good point Einstein

Oh yeah next time I suspect foul brood I'll jump on my old motor bike and do a wheelie

Yep 9 pounds ain't much but if you've got more than a couple of hives it gets expensive.

Isn't it interesting though , we all want to control disease ,the NBU is particularly active and keen ,yet the EFB and AFB test kits are outrageously expensive. Bearing in mind all the excitement and hot air spouted by politicians and the media regarding pollinator s and their decline,if there...

1 no 2 government through National Bee Unit 3 no 4 Voluntary 5 no inducement but statutory legal obligation to report EFB and AFB to authority there is a website provide by the Authorities showing where disease has been reported 6 no 7 EFB not notifiable disease in other EU countries regards James

smug or what??

Checked on the heather north of Chatsworth very dry, no odour of heather, crumbles in your hand ,some burnt patches too. With this in mind, and being on a monocrop is tough on the bees at the best of times , much as I love the heather honey, this year Im going to pass for the sake of my bees

thanks guys ,done that, obvious when somebody else mentions it isn't it !!!!!!

beards of bees on the front of the hives, no sign of swarming or swarm cells, no sign of rain ,are we running short of forage? Just been up to the heather its trying to bloom but dry , crispy and bleached