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Thanks Itma, good advice. I fed straight away so risk having diseased honey but not a lot I can do about that now - will know for next time.... As for a continuous flow, they have now been fed for almost 10 days & have practically drawn out all but 2 frames in the brood box, hence why I'm...

Fab! Thanks, will remove the feeder this evening - was costing a small fortune in sugar!!

We caught a fairly large swarm just over a week ago (not one of ours) & have hived it successfully with new foundation which the bees are busy drawing out at record speed. We gave some sugar solution feed as recommended in the books to start the bees off & also as the weather was wet & cold at...