Interesting article on CCD

Bee's Dieing in the United Kingdom

I was sent an article by a friend regarding bees dieing in the UK. Seems they now have a super Varroa mite.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7240456.stm

Makes for interesting reading anyway... I guess i fall into the not using chemicals unless you really really have to.

Fitting the Small Cell foundation to the Frames

Fitting the small cell foundation to the frames can be a little bit tricky. for one thing its very fragile ! I found on the wedge bars i had to nail at an angle because the nail would protrude out of the top bar. I'm going to put a small beed of wax along the bottom to make it more secure

Putting together a Mann Lake Carboard NUC

We have ordered Cardboard NUC's from Mann Lake. The reasoning behind this is that we will use them for transporting the bee's when we get them. I didn't like the idea of transporting live bee's in a Hive Deep.

The Cardboard NUC are Waxed and are very easy to put together as the video suggests..

More Flowers and Woodenware

We are in the process of putting all the different wooden ware boxes together. Most of it is dead simple in that its all flat pack, just glue and nail.

We are also in the process of putting flowers and flower boarders around the bee hives..