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I'm having a go at using a Snelgrove board this year. I have just completed the last door opening and shutting manoeuvre which has resulted in the top back door being open and the bottom right door being open. The virgin queen in the top brood box is due to emerge in two days time and...

Gosh today is busy - 5 swarms already, and it's only 1.50pm

Had a call from Environmental Health today about a car park in town with "bees everywhere." I went to have a look and have never seen anything like it. There is a hedge which I think is an Escallonia that is about 20 meters long and there were literally thousands of bees all around it, around...

I need to move my hives about 50 yards as the farm they are sited on is about to do some major earth moving work. Do you think I could get away with moving them in one go using the magic sticks trick. Daytime temps forecast to be 7 degrees from Monday to Friday this coming week OR should I move...

I thought it was very kind of the farmer next door to my out apiary to get a message sent to me that he would be spraying his beans yesterday morning. OK I didn't find out until 8.30pm on Sunday night but that was OK. I went up at 5am and locked the little darlings in. I was anxious, it was...

Hopefully this link will work - enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W60yCP25ixI

One of our knowledgeable association beeks has mentioned that they thought the National Honey Show was possibly not going to be in Weybridge this year. Does anyone know if its moving. We're trying to get our programme finalised and it would be great to have the details. Hope I'm not starting...

I was rang by a lady last night who has honey running down her attic bedroom wall forming a large puddle on the floor and could I help. I have managed to persuade a fellow association beekeeper to come and have a look with me tomorrow. This sounds like it is going to need to be cut out. My...

I had a lovely message from the Beekeeping Forum this morning wishing me a happy birthday. Thanks guys x

Can anyone recommend a blow torch that has enough power to heat up a branding iron. I need to brand my hives and my current blow torch doesn't seem to have enough umph!

i made up a nuc 11 days ago with just brood and young bees from an established hive. I had purchased a new queen and she was introduced to the nuc having removed her attendants. Two days later I removed the plastic cap on the introduction cage, knocked down a queen cell that had been started and...

All my hives were stolen this morning from a farm just outside Hungerford. A very professional job, whole site cleared. The hives had the Arnia hive monitoring systems in so I got theft alerts at 6.38 am. By the time we saw the alerts and got there everything was gone. Devastated!

I've done the courses, I am reading the books, I appear to be addicted to this forum. I am obsessed by my bees, constantly thinking about them and have never experienced so many his and lows. They are a constant source of anxiety and have cost a fortune. I love it and am totally addicted. Is it me?

I have one hive with bees on 10 frames but no queen. They have filled all the cells with nectar in the brood box and ignored the super. There is no brood. I have another hive that is an AS containing a lovely queen but not many bees. I have fed them and kept the floor in but they aren't drawing...

Having inspected my hives last Saturday I got a phone call from the bee inspector on Tuesday morning saying he wanted to check the hives the next day (yesterday). He gave them a thorough search revealing half a dozen queen cells (which he tore down) and told me I needed to organise an AS as...