Hi Barbara
I'm nearer Middlesbrough than Newcastle in a little village called Seamer.
I got my bees from Bill Bates ( a really cool chap down the road from us) and he has done bees for years and years. He imports queens from Slovenia every three years to keep his strain pure and i was lucky to...
oh...thankfully i havens had this problem as i don't think i wold have coped if i did...
i would have probably gone crazy and mashed this thing hard...if i could get near it!!!