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    Wax filtering.

    Try a single layer of paper kitchen towels. You must keep the set-up warm. I use a smoker that I can set for 75 degC. If your kitchen oven can go that low, try it. But make sure no wax drips down or you will experience the wrath of SHMBO.
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    National Honey day

    Do not waste your time and effort. Even if the legislation gets through, all you will get is fake info on fake labels. If you cannot verify it yourself, 99% of any info can be safely assumed fake.
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    Bees ignoring a super

    Thank you to all that offered their kind advice. I guess that I will have to wait until the bees run out of space. Many thanks again.
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    Bees ignoring a super

    Hi, On a number of occasions I tried to add a super with just foundation or foundation strips, not a drawn comb for the lack of it, but the bees were most unwilling to move in even if quite crowded in boxes below and at a time of good forage and favourable weather. Is there a trick to make them...
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    What a disaster

    I had a similar situation. Tried to put the queen into one hive entrance, she refused to go in. I realized the problem and put her at the other hive entrance - she almost jumped in. She knew where she belonged. Trust the bees.
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    Anyone bringing shade to their bees for the forecast heat wave?

    I advise from experience, I have lost the best hive a few years ago during a heat wave. I live in Melbourne, ambient temp. was 48 degC or higher. There are two risks during a heat wave: 1. Hot ambient air. You can do nothing about it but do not let the hot air into the hive - DO NOT...
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    Swarm captured -cant find queen

    All my experience is that if there is no queen - the centre of attention for the whole lot - they will quickly depart and perhaps return to the issuing colony or disperse. If they stay together, there is the "magnet', i.e. the queen. As others wrote, most likely a virgin, but still a queen...
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    Third swarm of bees to occupy my traffic cone

    I tried something almost exactly as you say. You will not believe - the results were in alignment. But it means nothing to one unwilling to accept the facts. And only facts should matter, not preconceptions. There is no scientific method to prove that something (object, phenomenon) does not...
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    Third swarm of bees to occupy my traffic cone

    May I respectfully recommend 'I am not aware of plausible evidence...' instead. More appropriate from scientific point of view - verifiable, unlike the original version. These are valid questions, but if we do not have answers, this is not an evidence of nonexistence of the phenomenon. This...
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    Third swarm of bees to occupy my traffic cone

    This is a statement without proof. Words like 'no-one' or 'ever' are risky ones. FYI, I tried to disprove the energy lines theory and failed abysmally. Tested 50+ swarm locations, could not find one where dowsing would not show energy lines (or whatever dowsing shows, I do not care what it is...
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    Adding a super

    I find Finman's advise very sound. FYI I tend to keep two full size Lang brood boxes and no excluder. Pollen ends up in these two brood boxes. When adding supers (I prefer shallower ones, such as the so called Ideals Langstroth) I always add a new one under the current top box. I have found...
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    Osr honey in frames

    PS: I heard about a trick for recovering honey set in comb: place the frames in a box located under the brood box, first from the bottom. Apparently bees hate honey placed between brood and entrance (hard to defend), will re-liquefy it and transfer above brood. Make sure that there is...
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    Osr honey in frames

    IMO crystals ain't crystals. I had honey that was extracted liquid and then set in a cold garage and set quite hard. It re-liquefied nicely in a 38 deg C box. Some into an amber liquid, some into a consistency of a peanut butter or a bit thinner. Still good enough as it was already in tubs...
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    Bee swarm ‘dissuaders’

    I received a message that there are " Bee swarm ‘dissuaders’ ( 3 New Posts Yesterday )" Where are they? Why are you emailing BS?
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    BIBBA talk on Ley Lines

    I agree with you 100%. I read JH, I read RP, I tried to prove that they are wrong, I failed miserably. It does not mean that they are right but what a hell, why not to try what they recommend. Nothing to lose. I tried and I am of the opinion that it works for me very well. And to those...
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