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We have bought one Chinese hive of Flea bay, the cedar was as good as a british bees on a buget hive and better than winter sale stuff the roof was even cedar not OSB, it did have a few flaws such as the entrance block being set in the bottom edge of the brood box, it also had a solid cedar...

:iagree: Beautiful, Great pics

We use wind brake netting. Works well slows wind bees fly over.

Veg we checked the disused hives well spotted all empty, outlander they were doing orientation flights this morning and looked like foraging this afternoon,we went back this morning and left nucs with lemon grass oil and empty comb, stragglers collecred to night. We have had a very exciting...

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Welcome to the forum Bee56 lots of knowledgeable people on here.

"If it is only full of bees (and there are going to be no more for at least three weeks), the weather is good, etc, you may well be fitting a super inside a week (the exception I use to prove PH's '8 full frames of brood' recommendation before supering). They will be drawing comb and expanding...

Definitely, and I didn't mention the £5 stuck to the van tyre that went towards the scampi:cheers2:

Yet another question the nationalbrood box looked rather full of bees, do we need to worry about they swarming again, should we give them more space!

Yes Well done from us too. Hope they are a nice gentle colony for you. Our swarm seems to be a nice colony, been out to feed them and they are happily flying. c

Should have added you dont want to remove all drone cells as works like them.

The way I understand it is you just uncap sections of it say once a month as you dont want to remove all the drone brood in one go.

Hi, andy-glide, As a fellow newbee, I have seen super frames used like that as away of controling varroa during the honey season theory being varoa prefer drone brood, so you uncap those cells and remove larvae the varoa will be visible.if I am wrong someone will be along with more knowledge.

Another question, assuming the remaining bees are still there and we manage to catch them will they be accepted by the main swarm if we leave them on the doorstep or should we do a newspaper unite with them?? Thanks

Thanks Guys for your moral support. Going out to add feeder now as is raining cats and dogs Drought what drought:eek: Bees are still flying though:eek:

More pics, Feeling quite elated:rolleyes:

Pics of swarm

Going to go back this morming to see if they moved in to skep we left behind, will also take nuc box with frames and lemon grass oil as I believe it might attract the stragglers :rolleyes:

We were supposed to go for practical HM clipping and marking, raining again so cancelled. Weather broke in afternoon so decide to do inspections, united one weak with a strong colony.looking at second hive and find unmarked Hm. Tools for clipping etc only just arrived from T*****s, gulp:eek: now...