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Ian, thanks for the advise, no need to send any qx's. I fly to South Africa on a reqular bassis, I wll pick up a few while im there next. thanks for the offer though. Cheers,

Hedgerow pete thanks for the advise, I have put 5 waxcovered frames in the hive, also melted a whole load of propolis and painted the hive with it to try and get rid of any smell coming from the pine that has probably been cured with chemicals before construction of the hive? the hive is...

I had a look at thier site earlier, looks like they are doing some good work!

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I am based in Zambia & would like to start a few hives, the problem being based here is that you can’t purchase bees, you have capture hives. Now capturing the hive is not a problem, I have caught several hives but can’t get them to stay in the new hive (Langstroth) I put them in and within...