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I'm interested MM so keep going.

Is that Hivemaker in the advert pic then?

:iagree: Good answer

I AS'd one of my hives last season in late June, the new Q mated & came into lay but for the rest of the season only laid up two frames of brood. The hive has come through winter and started brood rearing but again only two frames of brood, whereas my other hives have 6-7 frames of brood. I...

They look good! Where can you buy these sheets? Cheers

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That was the question, not can I rear queens at this time of the year! Lol

Really? I would have thought the OP would have known about there not being any drones about for mating this time of year. Oh well

Double brood all of your hives & have a go at rearing Q's, once top brood boxes fully occupied take off & introduce your own Q's.:)

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Wow that entrance looks massive, it could swallow a whale lol

).[/QUOTE With the greatest respect, dangling a management not involving Apiguard or Oxalic in your posts and then refusing to give any pointers regarding it is like telling a joke and then refusing to tell the punch line! Cazza :iagree:

Maybe you could do a sticky & tell us how you manage varroa? I'd like to read it. I'd rather not use chemicals.

What about the bees in the container?:)

You would have been fine! It wasn't like that at all.

I found the morphometry & discoidal shift talk very interesting, I now know what all those dots on a graph mean.

Was a good day & good turn out. Watch out for BIPTV next! :)

Ok dokey thanks will have a look

Apart from Modern Beekeeping, does any one know where else you can buy them from? Thanks

I've painted my 14 x 12's with the Sandtex paint gotta do the third coat soon then all done. Cant wait to use them! :party: The only thing that concerns me is using polythene sheet as a crownboard, the lids are a good fit & I cant see the sheet folding down the sides over the box when lid...