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Apiary Discussion

This page is of SBKA Members to discuss the proposed SBKA Apiary. Members Survey Results Apiary Survey Results Proposal for the Apiary A Draft Proposal To Set Up A Sleaford Beekeepers Apiary SBKA committee meeting Minutes 21st aug 2019 SBKA committee

Graham Luckhurst 27th August 20194th January 2020 Uncategorized Read more

DBKA Newletter

DBKA eNews AGM Feb 2019 copy

Graham Luckhurst 4th August 20194th August 2019 Uncategorized Read more

How Good is Your Honey?

You already know your honey is good. Your mum likes it. That supportive neighbour has never handed back a jar. And the Vicar was delighted with your contribution to the harvest festival but he sounded just as delighted with that

Graham Luckhurst 7th September 20179th September 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Bee larvae fed beebread have no chance of becoming queen

A short article that explains the title, with video with strangely inappropriate music.

News Bee 3rd September 20173rd September 2017 News, Uncategorized Read more

A short article on beekeeping that spans the world and the whole of human history.

Honey, I love you: our 40,000-year relationship with the humble bee.

News Bee 25th May 201716th March 2019 News, Uncategorized Read more

1st Inspection 4/4/15

I carried out my first inspection today of my remaining 3 hives. They all had brood, 2 hives were across 5 frames and 1 was across 7.  Some way behind last year, but last year was very mild. Still plenty

Steve 7th April 20157th April 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Drone laying queen. 15/2/15

Yesterday I noticed that one of my hives was evicting undersized drones. I realised this probably meant the the queen was infertile and could no longer lay fertilized worker eggs. At this time of the year queens can’t get mated

Steve 15th February 201519th March 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Checking varroa inspection boards

After leaving the varroa inspections boards in for 96 hours I checked to see the results of the treatment.  The first hive had a huge mite drop, this is the hive I treated using a homemade thymol treatment. I think

Steve 11th January 201519th March 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Oxalic treatment 4/1/15

The first visit to my hives in 2015 was in order to apply oxalic acid to the bees to kill the varroa mites that are not in the brood.  Today I had a number of other members of SBKA with

Steve 5th January 201511th January 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Fondant Feeding 6/12/14

I have been concerned about the store levels in my hives recently, one in particular.  So I decided today to add a slab of fondant on top of the frames of the lightest hive. The others should be ok until

Steve 7th December 20147th December 2014 Uncategorized Read more
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