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Two, 5 Frame Nucs headed by 2022 (Yellow) Paynes Buckfast Queens. Supplied in a Paynes Polynuc on British Standard National Frames, £190 each (£20 in advance £170 on collection) Ready for collection now from CM23 postcode. £20 refund if PolyNuc returned.

5 Nucs available £25 deposit for Spring 2021 (mid May delivery depending on weather) 5 Frame Nuc’s of Honey Bees With mated marked 2020 Home Bred Buckfast Queen. Very prolific and Calm. Bees will be on British Standard National frames inside a Brand New 5 Frame correx Nuc travel box (see...

Looking to purchase a Full Hive or Nuc in March for my fathers birthday (he has kept bees for many years but stopped) and now looking to restart. Must be in Hertfordshire - can pick up earlier They will be given a good home on his allotment Please private message me with pricing and...

Thanks I will contact Peter Folge in the morning just to make sure. After googling it they are not sunken so hopefully that's a good sign but will get them checked out.

Hi All, I have a problem with one of my hives the new queen which is bred from a queen cell has laid a little but now stopped plus the eggs that she did lay are not hatching there I s no smell or gooey substance in cells so I am presuming it is varroa infestation and not foul brood but I have...

Hi she was sold as "mated+marked"and definitely not killed as I saw here 2 days ago. I have emailed the company tonight asking to get a refund if I send her back. Will do one last check this weekend and then send her back Monday.

As this is the first queen I have bought in is this normal ? Should I send her back ? Thanks in advance

I am hoping to move from one to 2 hives by creating a Nuc from my strong colony 2 brood boxes - they can spare 2 frames of Brood and one of stores (is this enough, I don't wAnt to knock them back but worried if they swarm I will be in a pickle with no back up) there are drones in the strong hive...

Hi All, I have a double brood hive next to an OSR field but have only just got my super sorted as had to wait for new frames to arrive since the old super frames were full of thymol tainted honey from last year. I had left on lots of stores but they have not taken any where near as much as I...

Sorry 2 brood boxes on top of each other should have realized that would confuse people - so far they seem to be building up very quickly so will leave them alone for now - once cold weather has past this weekend I may add a super :)

Double brood - Go for it. I did that late last year and now have 1 jumbo poly brood with a cedar national on top expecting big things this year and will split as soon as i see queen cells - the benefit of double brood is that all I will have to do to split/artificial swarm will be to move cedar...

Thanks for all the replies, some excellent advice. As I have 2 hives on top of each other, with 1 queen I have decided to leave them alone until they decide they want to swarm. As soon as I see queen cells I will take the cedar national off of the poly and try to create an artificial swarm by...

Thanks for replies Thanks to all for your replies - does anyone have a good spring varroa treatment suggestion that is not not temp reliant - thanks again

Hi, trying to find a varroa treatment that's safe in polyhives and won't melt it. Apivar - no good will melt Polysytrene Apiguard - can not get an answer anywhere ? Any other suggestions would be appreciated Thank you Ale drinker

Hi All, would appreciate some opinions on this. This is my 3rd year with the same queen I started with (so she's 3 possibly 4) first year started in late May so I left all the honey for them to overwinter. But left too much so 2nd year they were incredibly lazy and the queen was slow to build...