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    Couple of queens wanted

    Does anybody know of any queens for sale I've googled a few places but they are either out of stock or still awaiting deliveries? I have a very aggressive hive that I want to re-queen and will probably spit at the same time. Fancy giving buckfast queens a try for a change.
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    Honeybeehive website

    I have had a listing on the honeybeehive website to sell some of my honey for a few years, but haven't had any enquires for a while now and I tried to access the website over the weekend and it doesn't seem to exists anymore. Anybody know what has happened to it? I only thought about it over...
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    Queen bee / nuc wanted

    Does anybody have any queens for sale in the Cheshire / south Manchester area. Or possibly a nuc as I've check my hive today and the queen has vanished, no eggs and very little brood so I think she has been gone a while. The queen was spotted last month when I inspected the hive and was building...
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    Split a hive two or three way

    I was wondering what people thought about getting two new queens and then splitting an existing hive into three, so a third has the existing queen with some brood, stores, eggs, etc. Then each new queen has a remaining third each. The hive I'm thinking of splitting is building up very nicely...
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    Just had an interesting phone call.

    Just had a call from a friend who is decorating his house and has found honey runing down inside an elcetricity socket! He saw the odd bees around the outside part of the house during the year and has had a swarm in the garden this year( he only moved into the house in the summer). My question...
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    Splitting a Hive

    I got a nuc of bees last year and they seem to have come through the winter OK, in fact lots of activity outside the hive this morning with plenty of pollen coming in. My question is I want a second hive this year it has been susgest to me to move my original hive a couple of meters to the side...
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    Early days

    Got my bees two weeks ago, collected them in a national/traveling box. Got them home and put them on a WBC base at the bottom of the garden, left them sealed in the box for an hour to settle. Pealed off the tape to let them out, they started to venture out straight away, I notice one bee...
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    Lots of activity after the rain

    It rained most of the day here on friday, then when it brighten up at about 6ish there were loads of my bees entering and leaving the hive. About thirty to 40 in the air trying to enter the hive and they seemed to be queuing up on the landing board to leave the hive. They did the same last...
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