Recent content by piggy1

My first split i have done 21st May appears to have worked, queen now laying well, original colony with old queen on old site has built up to 8 frames in 5 weeks. I'm new in my 2nd year it's all a steep learning curve. :drool5:

Spax brand screws are our chippys preferred brand , we have used 10000 plus at work over the last 6 months and they are by far the best value .

Warmth rightly or wrongly ????

Fed 2:1 instead of 1:1 this week. starving . brood box crammed but they wont move up to super through crown board. Is this normal as its cold ?? Should i be worried as Brood box looks really full. When i did full inspection earlier in the week there was 9 frames of brood and eggs at various stages.

i've also lost one , nothing in the hive at all ?? other colony looking good pleasingly

Methane is not poisonous but the hydrogen sulphide produced by anaerobic digestion of waste is. But they would not be allowed to release this straight to the atmosphere, they must be using it for something such as generating electric or just burning off .

The hydrogen sulphide that is produced with methane is poisonous tho. but depending on what they do with methane they would not be allowed to release neat mehane to the atmosphere.

rab - i interpreted that as 6 frame nuc with 4 frames brood. but on re-read guess you're right an it is a 4-5 frame nuc dumped into a big empty brood box with just some foundation for company and lots of dead space to heat rather than caring for brood. Yes it is. The fella i got them from said...

New to beekeeping have 2 colonies, don't know all the bee jargon so may not be correct! 1st hive established and strong single brood box colony all spot on, 2nd is nuc hive 4 frames of brood in middle of box not doing much to front and rear of brood box, have only had them for 2 inspections...