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Phew!🐝👍

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Looks normal activity to me, just the bees making the most of a lull in the weather. Lovely pristine hive you’ve got there!

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Went through my four. Some nectar now being stored, but only the very beginnings of “stores” seen. Three were calm and well tempered, one improved on last week. (That’s not hard). One colony had a queen cell extending from the base of the foundation, which had shrunk or been chewed back...

I’ve trained the bees to form an orderly queue…..

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The fields adjacent to my apiary are used for intensive grass production for silage and for a digester to produce energy. The fields are regularly blitzed with Roundup and reseeded, then after each cut, the slop from the digester and slurry gets dumped on the fields. (Four times last year)...

You did well at 2.5k I reckon. Looks brilliant!

Is your middle name Donovan? “They call me mellow yellow….”😂😂 It’s so frustrating when that happens.

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It must be bad if she wants to go to Bridgwater! 🤪

That was my train of thought. If the spray rids the box of queen pheromones, I would think the introduced queen could be more easily accepted. I don’t know if I want to spend £40 to try it out, but it seems a feasible idea (not a magic trick).

I have only once united bees with just air freshener and it went fine. Other folk on here do so regularly it seems. It’s horses for courses I suppose. However, I wasn’t asking about uniting bees, but making a new colony from two others, mainly concerning the fighting risk.

Yes.

It is often said that to make a nuc from two colonies they will fight, but won’t from three? Uniting two colonies they don’t fight but the uniting is extended over a short period, by using paper. But, spraying with air freshener prevents fighting without delaying the process. If a nuc was...

You were chasing it about today, Victor🤯