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I am scaling back my honey production this year and have around 20 colonies available to purchase... Also the potential to take over apiaries in East London if interested. Colonies are on double brood (mostly Abelo poly) very productive. Would prefer to sell multiple colonies in one...

BS honeybees buckfast have always been good quality when I've ordered and customer service is also very prompt and helpful.

Agreed, hives in Walthamstow and Wanstead overflowing! Privet and bramble is my guess.

I wired a length of mains extension plug female socket to the power output of the temp controller, I then plugged a USB charger plug into that and bought 4 fans that can be linked in series from the one socket. https://ibb.co/HdmszYr https://ibb.co/3Wy3tmY The other socket runs from the heater...

That was part of my inspiration. Abelo have a wooden one for 2 30lb buckets for £600... Mine takes 6 buckets and probably cost in total around £400... The wood and insulation being the costliest parts. I'm using the elitech e1000 controller...

Can you just put a snelgrove between the two brood boxes with 2 different queens? will they not attempt a ruck through the gauze or QE?

If you are running a snelgrove on a two queen hive following swarm control, do you super between the two brood boxes or run supers above the top brood box as well as the bottom? do bees from the top box move down to bottom fairly freely considering the small queen excluded gap in the board...

I can help with advice on things if anyone wants to build something bigger/better. The temperature controller with button to control fans is my favourite part as i can accurately control temperature and it is really tidy. I use one greenhouse heater and on a test run with no honey it took the...

Here was my project over the winter, My old honey warming cabinet only took 2 buckets which wasn't great for large batches so i decided to design and build a new integrated unit. I've integrated it into storage racking. It is fully insulated with 50mm kingspan. I have made it fully temperature...

Has anyone seen any bramble yielding yet? i've seen some early flowers but no flow evident... There seems to be quite a few buds on them this year and weather may be more favourable than last year with sunshine and showers... last years crop was impacted by lack of rain.

Mixed bag with mine, some really strong with 2 supers on already, I'd say the majority are average... Building up well but not in sufficient numbers to take full advantage of the blossom. Anything is better than last year, this time last year we had snow!

Sorry Finnan. I was talking about winter. No problems in summer

I'm only basing this on observations when I've been faced with mixed boxes during summer when I've gone double brood on a colony in wood. I have some legacy wood boxes from when I first started but predominantly poly now.

Avoid putting wood on top of poly as the temperature difference leads to condensation on the wood. Poly above wood for now and change later...