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Hi all I had swarm arrive this afternoon ,very windy and am 99% certain queen was killed by mister spider as found a ball of bees on floor covering her picked her up and placed outside of bait hive and she was immediately covered in workers. I've not come over this problem before !!!! so my...

my first swarm capture of the year https://youtu.be/oDN3Ig3f8Hs hope this works first upload from youtube too

Hi all Friend of mine has just given me an unopened bottle of vitafeed gold,does anyone know what the ratio is for me to use in my spring feed????. or just how do I use it !!!!!

Hi all Going to use my nine-frame park very shortly,and was wondering if there is a certain way of taking apart for cleaning, I hate to lose summit important !!!!. Any tips gratefully received. Thanks

Hi all The last season or 2 I've tried wiring up my own frames but I've decided to knock that on the head. So I've got 35 sheets of super foundation going and was wondering if anyone would like to swap them for 25 sheets of wired super foundation ?, Long shot but message me if your interested Mark

hi all a friend of mine has just given up on bee keeping and has donated some of his gear to me,one thing is an unopened bottle of vita feed gold,having never used this before I need to know a:is it any good. and b:how is this given too the bees thanks

hi all Im in the market for a new extractor this year and was considering a motorized one,in your opinions what should I go for ?? preferably radial. thanks mark

hi all Just been given a 4 frame tangential extractor and thought id give it a try(saving up for a mann lake) so the question is how do u load it lugs inboard or outboard ?? i know ive got too turn the frames to extract other side :) so does it matter which way they go in ???. If you reply...

Hi all I need to transport a couple of frames eggs from my strong hives too two of my swarms as both queens seem to have failed too come back, its been nearly 3and a half weeks now and several checks have not turned up a queen ir eggs, what would be the best eay to transpot them? Simply put in a...

hI All Ive a problem hive at the mo it seems that the bees will not go up and store anything in the supers,ive tried frames of drawn foundation,brand new foundation but they just keep storeing it in the bb and the queen is now seriously running out of room to lay. she has about 1 frame on which...

Hi all I have a quick querie that I've not come across so far whilst beekeeping, a farm near my out apiary has two fields of osr that is now flowering well and my hives are only about a 1k away,I've not started spring feed yet and I was wondering if I should start if they are going to go at the...

Hi all My eye sight has been fading for a while now and last year i was having difficulty seeing eggs ect. Can anyone tell me what they find useful if they have the same trouble mark

Hi Does anyone on here treat with apiguard and start winter feed at the same time ?

Hi all Does anyone know of anybody that are still selling mated queens as I need a couple sharpish Thanks

Hi All just recieved my two new queens and im about too hive them, in the instructions it says release the attendants before putting in hive, they suggest doing this in a plastic bag!!!!. I see this as a recipe for chaos, is there another way of doing this ?? can i not spray them with sugar...

A fortnight ago I accidentally squished my two yr old queen,she went under a lug as I put the frame down and sadly got squished,I'd noticed there was bias so I thought that they would take an egg and make a new queen,that was 2 weeks ago now,I've just inspected them again and all they have done...

After the best part of 4 yrs of putting out bait hives,yesterday at approx 10.30 am, while I was at my apiary inspecting, I got a text from my partner saying the bait hive on the shed roof was covered in bees :).Low and behold I get home and a very nice swarm has taken up residence in my bait...

Hi all Is anyone else out there suffering this i last checked a week ago and two hives had started to build out across the frames but it seems painfully slow,they are on 12x14 frames last time i checked which was a week ago i had 1 frame entirely of brood both sides full to the brim no stores on...

Hi all Have been toying with the idea of converting my colonies too 14 x12, so would it be a sound idea too put my 12x14 poly hives on top of my nat bb and just let them get on with itas they are building up nicely??? Sound or unsound your constructive views please thank you

Hi all Just checked one of my hives and have come home slightly baffled, Found brood of all stages over two sides of two frames very uniform and clean. Looked a bit closer and around the sides of the capped brood there were several cells with two and sometimes three eggs in along side other...