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Booker allows BBKA members to get sugar from them. Not sure if similar applies in Scotland. Currently they are doing 50 kg for £22.

Get your sugar/syrup/fondant bought early. There is a significant price rise coming down the pipe as the new contract rates kick in from autumn. ...

When I was in Lewis this summer I noticed beehives on the outskirts of Stornoway at the Laxdale end. They were in a sheltered meadow, surrounded by...

No luck on the local association front and all the available queens from online sellers are from imported stock which is a non starter from me. If...

It may not be that bad. You need to do more research first though. Ask around. Checkout local beekeepers & be prepared to have very little in the...

Farmfoods 50p per Kg and £2 off is you spend £25 - (voucher on internet) B&M 50p/Kg

The weather really not helping us this past week, plus late in the season. There is nothing coming in and lots of unripe stores and grumpy bees...

Amitraz is what I planned to use as well. I also sublimate any broodless colonies (swarms, queenless colonies and all colonies in deep midwinter). I...

Yeah the willowherb is still flowering here and the fields are still white with clover but I’m fairly convinced neither is producing much. I find...

The willow herb is still flowering here. Interesting comment about the buddlia. Ours had lots of bumbles honeybees as well as the painted ladies. ...

:D It's definitely over up here now apart from the heather - home bees are taking an interest in buddleia and fuschia which in previous years I've...

A decent 5 frame nuc should survive for me in my part of the world. (3 frames of brood and packed with food by the end of September). It would...

Not a straightforward question to answer I'm afraid. Assuming they have low levels of DWV (so were treated early enough in the season to protect the...

We have had a lovely latter part of July. Hot and sunny but with enough moisture in the ground. Two of my colonies under the lime trees had a bonanza...

No ... I think it's all over bar the shouting in the balmy South. Queens are still laying OK, but there's not the frenzied activity of earlier in the...

Maybe I have had an unusually good success rate in previous years with queen matings, and it is only my third season... But have had a couple of...

It was all doom and gloom for me here in June.☹️ I was hoping to make up eight nucs but only managed to do four and I also bumped off three old...

Jambo Jambo - I set up for 17 new Qs and got 14 which mostly seem fine so far. One looks a bit runty, one runs everywhere. They were due to start...

Is everyone else having a shocking success rate of queen matings this year? Very frustrating! The good news is the bigger colonies are finally...

Did you cage the queencells on day 11 or 12 in readiness for emergence? I wonder if the bees lost contact with the queencells and then ignored them....

Thanks Kitta, I'm based in Fife and I've been in touch with the local association, just waiting on a response. I'll be away for a couple of weeks...

Silvbee, I don't know whereabouts you are - but you could perhaps ask your local association if anybody can help out. I'm afraid, I'm late...