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Stolen from apiary near Cardiff/ Taff's Well: a colony on 5 DN4 frames and a Thorne's 4" national roof. Just the frames, roof and bees stolen nothing marked except queen in yellow.

An article reporting study of link to bee behaviour and caffeine: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/plants-use-caffeine-to-lure-bees-scientists-find.html?_r=1&

Hello everybody, I'm looking for some opinions. Last season I bought some Maisemore's Jumbo green feeders. Unfortunately, this resulted in the deaths of many bees - the cone areas on all the feeders were actually packed with corpses. This season, I thought I had resolved the problem by...

An excerpt from email of Cardiff and Vale BKA " XXXX has reported an attempted theft of a bee hive from a site in Taffs Well. ........ The thief attempted to put the hive with bees into a van. He dropped the hive, presumably too heavy or cumbersome and drove off in his van when some one...

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Hello all, On 21/6/10 a swarm took up residence in a 5 frame nucleus box in my garden. On 6/7/10 I moved the colony more than 3 miles in preparation to moving them to my out apiary (which is about a 1/4 of a mile from where they originally settled)...

I am a new beek and have been learning from this forum since before I got my first bees, a swarm which descended on my newly painted national on midsummer day last year. So thank you to all who have contributed to the forum and my learning. My question is; at what point do you know that your...

Hello all. I'm looking for enlightenment. Is it possible/desirable to use DN4 top bars to make up 14x12 frames? Or is there a much better alternative?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266226/The-killer-Asian-hornet-threatens-native-honeybees.html