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Can't believe I didn't know this was at the front of my house!! Loads of buds on it. Anyone know how long it will be till it flowers? Buds are the approx size of pomegranate seeds

Such a helpful little guys aren't you Oliver!! Sick of seeing your posts that offer no assistance to the original poster. You just seem to enjoy having a go at some people for one reason of another.

Hi guys, Anyone know where I can trade in my refined wax for foundation near Liverpool? Do thornes still do it? Can I post it to them?

Could someone please post a pic of these lime trees, I don't think we have them around my way

Just trial and error! Just like experimenting and seeing what works and doesn't work. No buggy if I loose the queens in the process. However I do not wish the nuc to swarm and as I've read, queens can be made from older larva, just couldn't remember how many days old they can be. Btw, No...

I always heavily smoke whatever the swam was on to disguise the queens scent after 99% of the bees are in my nuc. Always seems to work and never had anyone call me back to say there are a tennis ball size of bees still there. I do however always pic the nuc back up when it's pitch black in the...

Wow, people must be as dumbfounded as I am lol

I agree,excess feeding only takes up room in brood frames and makes bees work hard to evaporate excess water off it. Queen will only lay x amount of eggs, depending on the size of the colony as if she lays too many, there are not enough bees to tend to them and keep them warm. The bigger the...

Hi guys, Just want someone to confirm this last Thursday 5th June, I gave a suspected queenless nuc a frame of brood in all stages on Thursday 12th June, I inspected the nuc and found they had drawn out 5 queen cells. 4 were capped, one was nearly capped. Now I don't want them to swarm but I...

Some swarms mate choose to build comb in here before drawing out fresh frames. Nothing to do with over cramping. I've had the feeder filled with comb within a week

It's not just brace comb mate, they fill it completely with brood comb which I cant inspect. They could make queen cells in there too soon that I wouldn't be able to see. Haven't got an eek but I will buy one now. Thanks.

Hi guys, I have 3 newish swarms that I want to feed to help them draw out the foundation. Doesn't seem much forage about at the minute but I'm worried about rooting as I lost one Nuc a few weeks ago to robbing (my own fault) I have filled the feeder compartments in the nucs with newspaper as...

Oliver90, are you always this abrupt or have you got out the wrong side of the bed this morning. If yer can't be nice, maybe it's best not to say anything at all Everyday is a learning day

Haha, run before you can walk spring to mind lol that's me!! Still very much a newbie so still learning. This I a small swarm I collected, it had a mated queen in as they had built comb in the bush they had decided to stay in and she began laying. I could find her in the swarm but I collected...

Hi guys, I have a nuc that is queenless (my bad!!) I gave then a frame of eggs and brood and they have built 2 emergency queen cells in the centre of the frame. Now, do I leave the 2 seal cells alone and alow them to hatch without intervention? Should I remove 1 queen cell Im not to sure if...

Yer, yer kind of right. If I was just there to fix part of a damaged roof, I would know what to charge. I just don't know how much damage I will cause to the roof as I don't know how big the nest is. The bigger it is, the more damage, the more it will cost to repair. I said to the owner I...

No idea if this will work but it's a shame to waste that nectar Can you not bottle it up and freeze it to prevent fermentation and feed it slowly back to the bees as and when I appreciate people thoughts on this

Haha, I was expecting half of those replies I'm self employed and run my own home maintenance business. Im actually a fully qualified gas fitter. Just want wanted to get an idea of what people normally charge for this sort of thing just for removing the bees, not repairing the roof. I have...

Hi guys, Been asked to remove a swarm of honey bees that have taken up residence in a flat roof Part of the roof will need to be removed, then the bees removed and then the roof repaired What I want to know is how much people charge for doing cut outs, it's gotta be a full days work

Hi guys, I done a little advertising regarding collect honey bee swarms but my phone has been ringing non stop but all the calls are for bumble bees. Only had 1 call which was a honey bee swarm out of say 100!! Was thinking of leaving a message on my answering machine giving advice on...