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First grafts of the 2024 season done today, 400 cells. Let's hope for some decent weather for the first round of matings.

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Sipa Honeybees We are now accepting orders for 2022 : Buckfast Queens - Overwintered or New Season Mated, VSH or Virgin Buckfast Nucleus Colonies - Overwintered or New Season National 5 Frame, 6 Frame or 14x12 Buckfast Full Colonies - Overwintered or New Season National or 14x12 Gentle calm...

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We are still accepting orders for 5/6 frame Std National and 14x12 nucs, be quick because we will be closing sales soon. Wating list only now for Nucs Queens available, virgin and mated. Check us out here : www.honeybeenucs.co.uk Also as Sipa Honeybees on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and...

For a bit of fun if anyone is into Excel and Bees then the following might be of interest. Place the following formula in any cell, it will display the correct year marking colour for the current year. It could of course be adapted to show years past or forward. It will automatically update on...

It now seems that Bee Equipment is going to be importing nucs for resale (bees on frames) from Puglia Italy. Not someting I'm keen on.

Here is a tip on how to clean wax from queen rearing equipment, things like the Nicot or JZB cups used for grafting. At the end of the queen rearing season we like to clean and sterilse all the equipment. Take a large pickle jar and half fill with warm vegetable oil, rape/ canola will be fine...

I normally buy my foundation from Peter Kemble at KBS. I know it's expensive but it really is the best coupled with great service, never had any problems. I was looking to place an order for another 1000 sheets of national brood wired, so this time I thought I'd put it out to quote from a few...

Does anyone here draw their own glass tips for use in II If you do, what puller do you use and what was the cost. There are a few on the auction sites and was contemplating having a go.

Here is one to get this thread going. Please add yours. If you are having trouble cleaning beekeeping detritus from items that you can't clean with the usual methods, here is a tip that really does work. Use Huggies Pure baby wipes, they must be the "pure" type. I cleaned a friends leather...

We were out collecting sloes today, what an abundant crop. I was struck by the amount of holly berries, rose hips, elderberry, hawthorn laden with fruit. I remember the winter of 1962/3 as a boy spending Christmas in rural Dorset. As it turned out that Christmas holiday was extended by 8 weeks...

Interesting point about varroa. I was interested to learn how the reproducing female mite "knows" when to enter a cell that is about to be capped. Turns out that this behaviour Is triggered by the larval pheromone that also triggers the workers to cap the cell. Now if some clever chap can...

Here is an updated link to download my Sugar Syrup Mixing Calculator spreadsheet. It's an Excel 2010 file. This spreadsheet does things that you won't find elsewhere on the net, so I hope you might find it useful. download it here...

Dave Hackenberg, a LARGE commercial beekeeper in the US talks about honeybees in a short promo video for the weather channel. http://www.weather.com/video/weather-really-matters-to-bees-49164?collid=/news/staff-picks I enjoyed it. Sipa

Just had a call from one of our farmers to say he starts spraying insecticide on the rape fields on Monday, weather permitting. They spray mornings and evenings, avoiding the heat of the day. Might be worth checking if you have hives on or near rape. We will be closing up the hives whilst this...

see it here Bee-Keeping On The Move - YouTube read the story here http://www.begadistrictnews.com.au/story/2193379/throwbackthursday-begas-beekeepers-on-the-move-identified/?cs=504

It seems there are lots of reports of hives coming through winter in good condition and building up fast, that's great news. One of the factors supporting this is the condition of the winter bees last autumn, lots & lots of pollen stores. Bees need lots of carbs over winter, but don't forget...

A new honeybee colony simulation package is now available for free (as open source software) New computer model to help scientists, beekeepers and regulators to understand multiple environmental effects on honeybee colonies Scientists have created an ingenious computer model that simulates a...