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Just wondering if the queenless box is on the bottom and queenright box on top with supers in between will the bottom box make queen cells?

Just to add a complication whats the best way if the q-has supers in place?.Ainsie

Thanks Finman, I understand .Cheers.Ainsie

Hi Finman,just wondering after the 5 days when uniting supers back to A/S do you need to use newspaper to unite or will they still unite peacefully with direct unite.method seems to make a lot of sense.Ainsie

Brood in all stages. Ainsie

Hi Aggravated, 2:1 sugar syrup is either 2lbs of sugar to 1pint of water or 1kg to 630ml hot water helps it dissolve quicker, no need to boil.2:1 mix is less likely to ferment than 1:1.Hope his helps. Ainsie:)

Another advantage of using drone foundation in supers is that the bees don't put pollen in drone size cells which I find is a big advantage especially when using standard size national brood boxes.Ainsie

Frames SN 1's and castellated spacers [10's] for me.kiss.;) Ainsie.

Yes , well spotted how about marking her to make it easier in future. Ainsie

Hi, just wondered if mating nukes or artificial swarms fail to get mated queens is it necessary to find the virgins before uniting with a queenright colony via say newspaper method or is the laying queen likely to kill the virgins.After 4 weeks waiting I'm afraid my optimism is beginning to...

Thanks Poly Hive, sorry for the unclear question but yes I did mean arrangement of frames in the nucleus, in my case wooden ones.Cheers Ainsie.

Making up a nucleus Hi Poly Hive, thanks for the post, just wondering in what order do you put the various frames in the nuke.Cheers Ainsie

Hi Psafloyd,regarding occasional bee suits try googling observer smock.Ainsie

Feeding Syrup Hi Poly Hive, do you use frame feeders to feed your 1 pt of syrup/week? just wondering.Thanks Ainsie.

veil repair Hi Kronkie, try googling jenny gammon veil repair, hope this is of some help.Ainsie