Recent content by Nige.Coll

No, it's bolted to the floor lol.

My 64 frame is great

F0 doesn't exist it's P. As soon as you ask for a f0 they know you are a b**end. Suppliers can't be responsible for the shitty mail service. I have paid for next day delivery many times and it hasn't happened mainly due to the postal service. The supplier cannot help this. That's why the post is...

Give them a box, if that doesn't work requeen.

soapy water works well. Trying to requeen nasty colonies is generally a ballache..

My mate likes to paint drones at the hives at the training apiary. so much so that I bought 20 pens in different colours. it seems every colony now has 6 queens all marked in different colours according to the beginners. it's fun to see them move around.

Correx nucs have the entrance in the side. The brood boxes I have split in half have it in the side. Not sure about the long side as my boxes are square. :) I think you care more about where the entrance goes than the bees will. They never seem bothered where it is.

People do contract extraction and jarring. You can take full supers drop them off and collect jarred honey.

37c isn't warm enough 50c is ok it can be at that temp for a short while, 60c for 45mins/hour is what the BBKA recommends for shelf life. The hotter it gets the faster it's ruined.

Ideally no, honey is an acidic food and aluminium isn't great with acidic foods.

There should be, when you buy carniolan queens from Tamworth they tend to have carniolan traits. lmao

I've not had that problem with the clear polyester labels from flexilabels or their paper ones. when did they change the spec?

Publisher and a laser printer is what I use.

If the hive is very light then it begs the question what have they done with the stores being frugal bees, last year was a great year for honey. If no honey was taken then they should have filled the hive and had more than enough to last the winter. The late honey flow continued for quite some...

Seems to be a lot of drones in the pictures for a winter dead out.