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    Sourcing bees

    Hi, I'm a member of the Dunoon association and I've asked to go on the swarm list there. I'll double check they don't have any nucs for sale and contact you if not. Thanks
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    Sourcing bees

    Thanks, I've asked to get on the swarm list. My instinct was that importing bees would be wrong but then commercial beekeepers import them all the time don't they?
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    Sourcing bees

    Thanks, I'll contact them and see how I get on.
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    Sourcing bees

    Thanks. Is Hivemaker this hivemaker ? Is a package where I would get the package and queen separately and then introduce her?
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    Sourcing bees

    Hi, Could you point me to any nuc sellers here ?
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    Sourcing bees

    I've no bees following crazy wasp season in the autumn. I'd rather get up and going again as soon as possible rather than waiting on the offchance of a spare swarm. I got an email about ordering bees from here however I'm not sure about ordering from abroad and besides that I have national...
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    Colony decimated by wasps. Anything at all I can do?

    Thanks for the tips. I don't think I have enough bees now to make any difference but I have made a perspex shield. I wish I had known not to kill any wasps next to the hive. There are not many bees round these parts so I can't beg any but does anyone know of anywhere I could buy ( to be posted...
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    Colony decimated by wasps. Anything at all I can do?

    Thanks. I wish I'd thought of using some glass/plastic. I'll see how the possibily queenless hive owner feels but if that's not a possibility then.. Do they need to be able to fly over winter? I know ideally they should stretch their wings of a day when possible but would it stress them not to...
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    Colony decimated by wasps. Anything at all I can do?

    My colony has been under attack from wasps. I've done everything I could think of. Entrance has been down to one bee space, ( with a little tunnel rigged up in the hope the bees could defend easier with that ) Wasp traps everywhere, hours spent picking off wasps one by one, hours spent looking...
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    Grumpy bees - no eggs/larvae - possible hatched emergency queen cell.

    To continue with this sage Hive 1 - the split with the hatched queen cell finally has some larvae in it after 4 weeks. Not many but a few so I am hopeful. Hive2 - I bought a new queen and put her in a nuc box with a few frames from the big grumy hive last weekend. This weekend I checked and she...
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    Cleaning up old frames

    I scrape them down with a hive tool then dip them in a big saucepan of boiling water. Unfortunately I don't have a pan big enough for a frame to fit right in but I just turn them, works fine..
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    Honey bees and children?

    On the topic of children and bees - for those with children who help inspect the bees what do they use for gloves? I've ordered my son a bee suit finally (as he has been asking for about a year but I've been too stingy:) ) but I'm not sure what he can wear on his hands
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    Re-queening advice

    I've read several different accounts of the best way to go about this but would like some advice on best way for my situation. I split my hive in May hoping to prevent a swarm and up my single hive to two. The split made queen cells which hatched sometime between 20th and 27th of May. There is...
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    Honey bees and children?

    My son is 5. We've had the bees for a couple of years. They are in a field just at the back of the garden. We have a kind of barrier of shrubs between us and them but they come in fine to forage. He likes to watch them and wants a suit so he can come and help out. He has been stung so is aware...
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    Grumpy bees - no eggs/larvae - possible hatched emergency queen cell.

    I've had time to think about this some more. So assuming the small hive does have a queen and she mates and starts laying soon then I would be able to take some brood and put it in the big grumpy hive. How long would the bees in the big hive be okay without a queen? Can they wait that long...
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