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I have always gone to Ted Hoopers book Guide to Bees and Honey as my go to book , but after about ten years of keeping Nationals I would like to look into Top Bar Hives, The most talked about book on line seems to be Barefoot Beekeeping can anyone recommend this ,or give me an idea of a good all...

Hi I want to use honey instead of sugar in a couple of recipes One is for Marmalade the other for beer Is there a given formula in cooking i.e a kilo of honey equals a kilo of sugar so that I can just exchange the sugar for honey Will it work for marmalade and beer the same as sugar I want...

I am quite aware that this will be shunned my most of the serious microscope users, but if you just want to keep a few things that you look at on one of the cheaper microscopes have a look at this link for instructions on how to make a simple slide http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/ If you go to...

Here is a good video of the life cycle of varroa and the bee http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7304562435786960616#

On Saturday I split a colony and made up a nuc the colony had approx 3 Q C, this morning( Monday ) about 11.30 there was a swarm on the front of the hive and the clipped queen on the grass ,I managed to catch her and put her back into the hive with a Q X on the bottom of the brood box,there is...

I have searched on past threads,to see if people think it is a good idea to glue frames as well as nail, One good tip I have picked up, is to glue all joints except one of the holding bars that holds the foundation in at the bottom, this allows you to remove it so that you can put in new...

I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I have been having some problems lately. I have been running the same version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the Girlfriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that Drinking...

Here is an interesting link showing A tiny group of bees act like "pied pipers" to trigger the onset of bee swarms report scientists. By buzzing a "piping" signal the bees are able to initiate an explosive departure from the hive...

I have just started to read The Shamanic Way Of The Bee by Simon Buxton and early on in the book ,it is claimed that it is very rare for beekeepers to get cancer, which I must admit I am sceptical of, even though details are given of some of the research,but I discovered this article on line...

Can anyone reccommend where to buy some 14 X12 5 Frame nuc boxes from with metal roofs and OMF Somebody has said that they would like to buy me one for christmas

The governement decided that people were put off of buying Pollack at the fish counter because of the name So after much debate it has been decided to change the name to Pesticle

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives. By following the simple advice heard on a medical TV show, I have finally found inner peace. A doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you...

Loving Wife A man breaks into a house to look for money and guns. Inside, he finds couple in bed. He orders the guy out of the bed and ties him to a chair. While tying the homeowner's wife to the bed the convict gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up & goes into the...

Hi All I have been lurking around the outside of the forum for a while ,but I have managed to answer all my questions so far via the search facility and old threads I have just taken delivery of my first nuc, after about three months of mentoring via Wokingham and district beekeepers I wanted...