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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    I'm not adding a new super, simply moving the super currently underneath the brood box onto the top of the brood box. Yesterday was warm, sunny and free from wind, I'm waiting for another day the same before opening the hive again, I suspect it will be a couple of weeks at least before I can do...
  2. O

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Okay, thank you. My plan was that by placing the super which I suspect will be nearly empty onto the top of the brood box would allow the bees to move stores up and make space for more brood while keeping the stores they have. Is this not likely to work?
  3. O

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    I'm here to learn, hence my post! What exactly do you think I have 100% wrong and why? My aim with this colony is that they will be ready to swarm early as i'd like a second colony in the garden. Oli
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    I lifted the crown board for the first time this year; there were a huge amount of bees going in and out with crocus pollen. The hive has a brood box on top of a super which they filled from feeders in the autumn. I lifted a couple of frames out of the brood box but didn't remove the brood box...
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    What are the bees foraging in your area?

    Crocus mainly here with a little bit of snowdrop too; my neighbour told me he saw large numbers of mine on the crocus in his garden this morning and pointed out that his plum tree isn't far off being ready for the bees next!
  6. O

    Someone has been down to my hives ...other than me

    I feel you'd be better to tell the police you've already shot them, if you tell them you have a loaded gun they're unlikely to come and will call in armed response instead who will take longer to come? I like the idea of rice in a shotgun cartridge but isn't rock salt supposed to be better...
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    lamp for mounting on a rifle.

    I'd mostly agree, more now than I would have in the past, but there are some circumstances where pest control/management is needed like rats around food. That topic could be a whole thread by itself though! I use a large clulite which I bought to sit ontop of my .243 but mainly gets used as a...
  8. O

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    I topped up feeders as they're still taking it down and I figure they know best even if they are eating me out of house and home! I then battened down the hatches tying hives to stands with baler twine (not all the hives in the photos have bees in them but i tied them all down as i didn't want...
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    Hornets killed a nuc

    That's a very good point and very obvious when pointed out. Another good example of why I come on this forum! I have 3 other hives at work which are nuc's in full size brood boxes with dummy boards, they have got crown boards under the feeders as i'm using a different type of feeder on those...
  10. O

    Hornets killed a nuc

    There have been hornets coming and going all day looking for the now empty hive which the nuc was in which I moved this morning, they all came slightly different routes but from a similar direction. The problem is I live in the middle of 800 acres of common land, most of which is woodland. If...
  11. O

    Hornets killed a nuc

    I'll try to take some photos tomorrow, still got a couple trapped in the hive, they're quite feisty so i'm not sure I fancy trying to glue ribbon to one but might get brave!
  12. O

    Hornets killed a nuc

    I doubt the local council are interested in anything going by past experiences! There's still a few I've trapped in the hive so I'll try letting them go one at a time and following them, my garden backs onto 800acres of woodland so it might be a challenge!
  13. O

    Hornets killed a nuc

    The colony was doing okay last week, just a bit lower on stores than I would have liked, I believe the hornets have killed them
  14. O

    Hornets killed a nuc

    I wouldn't have known the latin name but yes, true hornets
  15. O

    Hornets killed a nuc

    I didn't explain that very well, the feeder is sat ontop of the brood frames and the hornets are all in the brood box where the brood was a week ago; they all came upwards when I lifted the lid then crown board on the top of the hive.
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