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I've done 2kg per litre and only had a very small amount of crystallisation after standing for some time (weeks I think)

I’d left a couple of part filled supers on a hive, separated from the bb by a crown board and empty super, with just a small hole in the...

Pretty common

Dummied down the black bee hive to seven frames. Could have probably left them with six. Anyway they’ve got lots of stores and they’re...

Transferred the wooden nuc colony to a poly nuc today. Will dummy down the black bee hive with kingspan tomorrow

I’ll dummy them down to 6 or 7 frames and hope for the best 🤞

21 days so from day 1 to emerging bees would already be July 30th. Next cycle would be end of August. All is fine and normal IMO, they...

Same as you Steve, I didn’t realise it was a July swarm - if it was earlier in the swarming season you would expect them to be flying...

Most of the swarms I catch around here are dark but this one is particularly so. Quite keen to keep them and see how they get on...

They’re certainly dark!

Fair point. I think around the time they arrived (9th July) I was reading posts where people were saying they were hiving nucs and...

Arrived early July. Even if she started laying on day one it would be end of July before you had new worker bees. Why would you expect...

I know, it’s weird. I vaped them on day 5 after they arrived before they capped any brood. Solid floor so couldn’t see the mite drop...

She was laying soon after arrival so I expected them to grow fast but alas they never did. Gave them a feed when they arrived and a...

May have had a slow start if it superseded an old swarm queen; may have been retarded by a lack of income in August which would...