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I'm about 40 mins from you. I have a few nuc's for sale with brood at all stages. Pm me if interested

should have left them to supercede her mate. The bees know best. Both mother and daughter can live side by side until the virgin queen mates. That way, the 'old' queen is still laying whilst waiting for the virgin to mate and begin laying oh well, whats done is done now!! I ve read many times...

either way i would imagine the capping would come off. They either pop off as the vacuum treis to pull the air between the capping and the honey out or the remaining water/moisture in the honey would reach a point at a certain pressure and boil. This would then puss the cappings off why dont...

cappings would pop off then honey would boil

Hi guys, I somehow managed to miss a super of osr from a few weeks back. I ony noticed when I began uncapping frames. Ive extracted what runny honey i could from the frames as it was a mix of 2 different flows If I put it on one of my hives with a crownboard inbetween the supers, will the...

hi guys, if i want to sell my honey in a shop that sells sandwiches/food stuffs what do i legally have to do?

I would have advised to remove the super frames with wild comb and replace with the right size brood frames. Then either remove the wild comb and discard and put the super frames with eggs in, in a super with a qx in between. reason being is that Ive used super frames in a brood box before in...

why did you feed with the super on? as you dont know how much is stored sugar syrup in the super, I would either take the super off and place in under the brood box, when the time is right, without a queen ecluder as winter feed or extract the super and feed it back to them when you feel you...

best to take frames out one by one and clean up the brace comb that they have built. might be an idea to cage the queen so you dont squish her whilst doing it. Then add back the missing frame if you dont, youll end up with a nightmare on yer hands and wont be able to inspect frames. sort it now...

as he says!! hive is useless with a laying worker!! give the hive a really good smoking, this will make bees gorge on honey reserves. bang all bees out in front of your other hives, and make sure you remove the original hive completely. they will then beg to get into the other hives and will be...

firstly, you need to confirm the original or reciever hive is genuinly queenless. A test frame should be used I would then place the swarm in a national super and place it ontop of the brood box seperated by newspaper. a queen excluder should then be used on top of the super containg the swarm...

I like the way a goody two shoes jumps on a thread and starts spouting the rights and wrongs and has absolutely no interest in the thread itself Im not saying he's broken any laws/rules but if the country followed ever rule to the letter, we wouldn't move. Hope you did your risk assessment?

thanx, that was all i required. far quicker than emailing thorn*s lol

Hi guys, I've ordered some personalised labels from thorn*s. Anyone have any idea when they will be delivered? I guess they have got to make them first

are you using a test frame to make sure they do not have a queen of some sort before introduction of a new queen? ive never had a problem introducing queens to true queenless colonies. If your adding a new queen to a big colony, its far better to introduce the queen via a nuc first and unite...

finally figured it out, you can indeed change the weight on the label using the personalised labels from thornes however just been reading that by selling to a shop who then sells to a customer requires a lot number i have 86 jars to sell. what do i need to put in the box to start the lot number

ok guys, thanx will move then into a national before she hatches, thats if im not too late already

i like the L4 labels from thorn*s but they dont seem to do 8oz ones sorry guys, its 12oz labels im looking for :-(

Hi guys, Im looking for some labels for some 8oz jars i made up with rape honey i like the gold and black type design in the thorn*s catalogue but i cant see how you change the weight on the label any advice on how to do this or where best to buy some nice labels at a good price

Hi guys, I have a nuc thats now got a beared of bees on the front of it for most of the day and during the night. Its been like this for a few days now to tell you the truth, this nuc needs transfering to a brood box now as it is now quite full with bees. problem is, the bees threw the queen...