Recent content by Lottie

Did you make your trailer?

Sounds like a 'must have'. Anyway of making them easily?

What is the advantage of deep roofs?

It's a yellow daisy-like flower... Also of leaf to flower tho...I take off the bottom leaves.

Why not take out some of the brood frames with bias and add them to other hives?

I just tried the airfreshner 3 frame method, wanting to requeen a cbpv colony, it worked a treat.

My bee inspector told me it was OK to move the brood.

Thanks , good idea

You mean they are human too??

Perhaps it should have been, ' they are human after all'

Does it matter whether the Queen is in the top or bottom box? To my way of thinking it's better if she's in the bottom as I only have to check the top box for numerous queen cells. I have two opposite entrances on both floor and crown board to save having to reverse the boxes.

I totally get that 10 beekeepers have 10 different responses but was not expecting sbis to be of the same ilk!

I checked with the sbi. Brood is OK to move

I only took a frame of sealed brood. No bees. To add to a nuc. Sbi said that was OK..virus is on the bees, not the brood.

Current thinking is 50-100 metres distant from hive apparently