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I didnt know this at the time but this is the secound cast she has lost from the hive, hence the reason she has no more equipment to house them. thanks for the info, didnt know they have a drone congregation area. I thought that if there were other hives in the same area, she would mate with...

Hi guys, had a call from a neww beek who had lost a swarm and didnt have any spare kit to catch it. after an hour, they are all safely in a nuc.not worthy It was a good size swarm and wasnt sure if it was a prime swarm or cast. After some more questions it turns out its a cast. I assume this...

Thanks guys for the advice. I got in really late last night so written my question quite quick anyway, yes I do know the differance between queen cells and play cups. As I said, I was all ready for inspection but once the rain started, it just wouldnt give up. It was making the bees really...

Hi guys, going to keep this short and sweet, I will explain in more detail later what has happened but for the time being could you please advise I have just bought a couple hives from guy. Wanted to examine them, found loads of swarm cells on the bottom of the frame. Anyway, it then starts...

I dont think theres anything wrong with buying from auctions, I have done it. I would ask the seller all the general questions re varroa treatment, specific species or mongrel, year of queen etc. If you are happy with the answers, tell the seller you will pay him the price but agree with him...

if they are charged and capped, they will swarm. Removing the cells may delay them a week or so but I would say you need to preform an artificial swarm.

hi, im a pretty new beek so dont take what I say as bible. Im sure a more experianced beek will give there opinion. firstly, do you have capped woker cells? if so, i would guess you need to find out which queen is doing what. If one queen is just a drone layer, she is pointless. Are you on...

do yer really think so? theres a couple of posts in the sale section advertising 2 colonies in national hives for £125 each. I have nationals but what would yer say one of them wbc hives was worth with a colony?

so how much do yer think its actually worth if it was split up and sold off?

looks like its gone.......

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Hi guys, still very new to beekeping. This is my secound year but only caught my 2 swarms late last year so had no drawn out foundation for them. They were housed in nuc's but are now in standard national brood boxes and i have been feed them lots for a few weeks with 1:1 syrup to help them...

dont bother mate!! ive just signed up at it works out at 77p per kg so poundstretcher is still cheaper. My memory is terrible and have forgot the price for a 25kg bag already. it was around £19.89

Hi guys, done an inspection again today as i may be 2 weeks before i can inspect again. anyway, got a small colony that i picked up as a swarm last year.I didnt have enough foundation frames ready for them at the time so fgave them a couple of drawn out super frames to get them going. They...

does sound like varroa may be the overall problem. Is HM laying? did you see eggs i will ditto using oxalic to treat for varroa while they are basically broodless, far more effective than a apiguard which also needs higher temps than were having at the minute

unfortunately not!! reason being is i could not afford to take a frame of brood from either of my other 2 hives.

thanx enrico, anyone else care to comment!

Hi guys, yesterday, i decide to do another inspection 1 hive i had was found to have a laying worker, drone cells everywhere but no workers. multiple eggs in cells and no sign of queen, i left them for a few weeks hoping that they may raise a new queen but the tried in vain. They did build...

maybe its time to look for some spring sown OSR

Im still a relative newb so im sure someone with more experience will answer this too but ill give my opinion yes i think theres quite a high chance it will taint any future honey even though you say its restricted to the brrod frames. For a start, the stuff really stinks and the fumes get...