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Your a wind up merchant Finman lol!!!

I've just read Poly hives excellent sticky. I'd like to have a go at Q rearing in the coming season. I've read of double brood with two supers in between used for Q rearing. Is there any advantage/disadvantage in this method. Sounds a good way of doing it to me. Keeping it in a Q + colony...

I was thinking of using a super for the Q too lay in & once she had filled it full of brood place a Q excluder back on. With the Q being put back in the B/B all the emerging new bees would go down into the B/B then take super off for winter or something like that.

Hello Need some advice please, I have a colony which was the Q- part of an A/S & left with a Q cell to produce a new Q. After 3-4 weeks no new Q, I happened to have another Q cell from another colony which I transplanted into this Q- colony. Again nothing happened so bought a Q which they have...

Let us have a look Admin, pretty please!

Hello, I did an A/S last week & found the Q cell that I left in the Q- less half of A/S to be resealed with nothing in it, pretty sure Q emerged due to the hinged cap. Anybody else experienced this?

Sphex, where abouts in the Tamar valley are you?

I've seen a bloke on you tube drinking it lol, I dont think the amount of oxalic acid in it is high, so it could be used on every inspection. Its supposed to get the bees to clean themselves & irritate the mites so they fall off. I would like to know the amounts of ingredients in it, then maybe...

You got me with that danasoft.com little man! lol

Hello, just a quick question, how much honey could you get out of 1 super frame? Hoffman spaced, non castelated. Fully capped. Thanks.

Is that a wasp in the second picture? The wasps the Americans call yellow jackets?

How about these for frames 14 x 12, more like 14 x 20!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJAQZ-iAIUE

Ideal cheers Poly Hive, sounds good for a first timer like me.

Is that a queenless starter nuc? So you can Q rear on smaller scale, I like it tell me more please. Are you selling your Q's hivemaker?

Where are you getting your bees from in Devon?

Ideal thanks, reading up as much as I can hopefully to give Q rearing a go this season. Bit difficult to ask the books questions, so long live the beekeeping forum.

Some methods of Q rearing use a Q right colony to finish off the Q cells. So if you were to do this with a double brood colony & Q cells in upper brood box, wouldn't the original Q swarm when the grafted Q cells were sealed? Thanks Red bee.

Yes in a valley and inline with the setting sun, nice and sheltered too.

Thanks PH hopefully its your first answer. I think its possibly your second though. Soon find out hey!

Saw a drone coming out of one of my hives today, is it early for them or not? Could be a drone laying Q but hopefully not, I only saw one so fingers crossed!