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Agreed its given a brief mention under "Method 2". No wonder I couldnt find it. Nor is it in the index.

That's a different lecture to the one I went to. I went to "Swarming, Prevention and Control " by Jim Vivian -Griffiths and I was questioning as to why the Nucleus method was not in the BBKA book of beekeeping.

I love this forum - always something new to find... https://thewalrusandthehoneybee.com/swarm-control-by-the-experts/ thanks

I went to the BBKA Spring Convention yesterday, for the first time, and attended an interesting lecture on swarm prevention and control. The speaker extolled the virtues of using the Nucleus method and said it is now the only method of swarm control that they use in their apiaries. Its the...

FWIW Ive never really needed a "seed" honey to get my OSR honey to form a lovely smooth paste. Im surrounded by OSR fields and this year its flowering earlier than ever. Over the few years Ive been beekeeping Ive found this works for me. After extracting and coarse filtering , I let it set in...

afaik, AHs do not fly at night unlike our european friends.

This winter I froze all my boxes to be stored for 24-48hrs. (I recovered a small discarded chest freezer from a ditch - it can take 3 supers at a time). Stacked the boxes and ran packaging tape around the joints (to "seal" any gap) and then put a dish of 80% acetic acid inside an empty super...

Apiguard in August and 3 doses of OA vape starting 22/11/2024 , 5 days apart.

Ive just done a 7 day varroa drop count for my 4 hives. Wasn't expecting to see many mites but I counted none ! Either my eyesight has gone totally to pot or oxalic acid vaping works better than any previous treatment Ive tried.

eclectic illuminating gladiatorial

I use a heater from Screwfix tube heater which easily gets my chest freezer cabinet to 50C https://www.screwfix.com/p/dimplex-ecot1ft-wall-mounted-tubular-heater-40w-408mm-x-81mm/3951f and a XH-W3001 temp controller (the version with 240v switching )...

Heath Robinson at work here - down draught sublimation via feed hole. plywood box for pan heater with draught excluder seal, Perspex viewing top, rain water downpipe, old PC fan, scuba dive weight for stability. (The bangs are coming from the MOD firing range nearby)

My honey is much rarer than that stuff in Harrods. Maybe I should tart my labels up a bit.

APC (y)

I felt the piece failed to mention the scale of global honey adulteration and how is has become industrialised with "designer" syrups available to beat standard testing methods.

The central shaft passes through a bearing at the top and is then welded to a gear. You would have to cut a bit out off the shaft and add that to the bottom of the shaft and re-join the shaft. But I would need to find someone who can weld SS , take it to them and pay them probably. My fix, is...

I am overwintering WBCs with double broods . They are heavy and made of different materials so their base weights are different , which makes them difficult to heft and also work out whats going on. So I use a lever and digital gauge to plot variance over time.

Well, I could have hacksawed the cages away from the central rod and then got someone to re-weld them for me or make some adjustable attachment. Or simply make some spacers from wood - worked for me. We're talking a 4 frame tangential extractor that cost £160 new.

Nothing to assemble by me - its came as is. But it could have been manufactured incorrectly.

Not possible - no adjustment - its all welded SS rod