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    Poly hive getting nibbled

    Following Dani’s suggestion on making lighter roofs I’ve been using this without any trouble at all for three years, I think. This year I noticed several areas of damage and repaired with aluminium tape. There was a shifty looking nuthatch sitting in a branch overhead, almost looked like it was...
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    Is the Dave-Cushman beekeeping website down?

    Hi Matty, This is probably me teaching you to suck eggs (though I’m assuming you’re not my grandma 🤔) but that can happen if you don’t refresh the browser page when you reload. To save downloading it again (I suppose to save time) your browser might load the last saved page from its cache which...
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    Jig Plans

    Hmmm, imply - does that ‘imply’ I did the screwing or do I screw like an imp? Should read ‘simply’ - like the way my brain works.
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    Jig Plans

    Just a really basic but quick to use jig. I set up a ’perfectly’ and carefully aligned nuc or bb first then imply screwed the guides o a piece of flat scrap. Making subsequent boxes is then a doddle as it’s a tight push or even tap fit but I often forget to use it these days. Maybe I will again...
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    Feral bees and bait hives

    Would be nice to say Hi, no need to wear a gardenia or carry a copy of fifty shades of, um, pollen? 🤔 I’ll simply look at everyone’s hands - from your ‘handle’ you should be easy to spot 😄, me too I’ll be the one talking about bees 😄😄😄
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    Feral bees and bait hives

    Sadly I’m not sure they did make any videos. my wife and I felt it was well worth attending though and would be happy to travel further for it next time. Would have been nice to have met you too! To keep on topic there was some talk of feral / free-living colonies but mostly, I think, about the...
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    Feral bees and bait hives

    Haha! No, I met Ceri Morgan @mbc when he was speaking at the recent BIBBA conference in Carmarthen :music-smiley-026: and though I have a few colonies bred from his lines he’s very definitely a different Ceri, ‘newer’ springs to mind :unsure:
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    Feral bees and bait hives

    I introduced my very first swarm, donated to me by Ceri Davis (Davies?) a bee inspector back in the early 80s into a brand new pine broodbox with empty frames (just one old comb donated by Ceri) and shook the bees out in front. I swelled with pride as they all marched in on one side of the...
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    Feral bees and bait hives

    I’m done now, and yes, sorry, did wander off topic and am enjoying the topic tbh.
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    Feral bees and bait hives

    It seemed perfectly fine to me when I read it, though I’ve completely forgotten what it was (apart from mentioning Ralph Buchler) so it wasn’t contentious or crazy - you’re right though, it was late :smilie_bett::) Oh, I did post the photo of how I isolate the queen here once before using the...
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    Feral bees and bait hives

    Hi Mark, I did see your post just before dropping off to sleep last night and woke up remembering almost none of it! Age? Could be. The only downside of the Ralph Buchler approach I can see is you end up with three frames of brood in the freezer from each hive - or you could put them into one...
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    Feral bees and bait hives

    Just outside Llandrindod Wells, five fields away to be precise. Began my beekeeping in, I think, 1983 and kept bees for nine years (that was a couple of miles outside Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire). I was in Langstroths back then and began with a swarm from Ceri Davies (bee-inspector) who took me...
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    The Brynmair slant on the Dartington Underfloor entrance

    My take on the excellent JBM OMF. The only change I made (I know - just have to fiddle with stuff) is the entrance doesn’t run the full width. I was was thinking the wasps might try sneaking in at the corners but I’ve been using the floors for a few seasons now and have everything running on...
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    Double glazed panels available for solar wax melter?

    Sorry to get back to you a year late but do you have any photos? I was gifted a double glazed unit by a builder doing some improvements for us and I’ve heard some people say single glazed is better for a wax melter but pleased to hear yours works so well. Have you or anyone else any further...
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    Castellated frames or hoffman style

    Haha, I do love this forum! Just ask a ‘simple’ question to get the whole range of passionate answers from a whole range of experienced beekeepers! I think one of the most useful things I’ve learned here (along with really precise pointers - I’m thinking ’under floor entrances’, thank you JBM...
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