Recent content by Greggorio

ok I've done it https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.955899204518198&type=1 (sorry if you haven't facebook. If I have time I'll work out how to add photos to the forum but right now I'm zipping around getting ready for work) They're now in my apiary and they are taking down some 1:1 and...

ahhh yes, not using smoke. i'll just have to hope for the best as no beekeepers near me that I'm aware of (well i know a few grumpy French ones but they're not likely to help me)

Their entrance is right by a kids bedroom and the parents want it out or killed in the next few weeks. I can definitely access it. The floorboards are not nailed down and I only need remove one and I have access. I would love to take photos but last time I took my SLR into a dusty space the...

Ok A friend has some bees going through their wall so I investigated and it turns out the bees are going all the way through the 2ft thick stone wall (not an exaggeration, very normal in France) and past 4 floor/ceiling joists and living between the plaster ceiling and the oak flooring of the...

ok I did it and checked it a week later and none of the bees have moved up or drawn out comb. Any ideas?

I don't know if making the ladder rickety is important but thinner round treads (just cut branches from a tree) and the ladders upright from a long straight bit of ash or hazel or whatever. Foxes are clever but there is still a limit to what they can do. They are essentially small dogs and have...

in Normandie we have maybe 1% of plants flowering on some fields. The rest are nowhere near flowering. Very odd but I think it's the weird winter we've had

I'll measure it later for you. The only one I can measure is on it's side as I just painted it

Maybe it's the case in all hives. Is it something to do with them making deeper comb for honey stores? Just wondering why my 10 frame Dadant has 9 frame supers.

:iagree: I live in France as well. I originally looked at getting my hives from a friend in the UK but literally 90% of hives in France are Dadant and the other 10% are Warre's. So trying to make anything compatible would have been a nightmare. Also as stated the French Dadant is different to a...

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I know, I'm gonna do it. I just confused myself in the process

also why will the queen move up? Does she tend to make brood as high as possible?

I had it in my head for some unknown reason to give them an exit in the plywood so between the Warre and the Dadant. Not sure where the idea came from or how I decided someone had suggested it either... Must be going mad

ok so two exits. I'll get whatever offcut ply the shop has and I'll cut the hole to exactly the internal warre dimensions. Though saying that the ply has to bear the weight of the Dadant so perhaps not too thin