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i have used liquid smoke and it seems to work just as well as normal smoke, its great as a back up too if your smoker goes out

Check your supers, i know sounds silly but could not find ours at last inspection and had lots of queen cells, however found her in the super today! she must have slimmed down for swarming, got thru the excluder and found room to lay and so stayed put! (she was on the centre frame in the super...

i too went along to the auction and was very pleased to have grabbed a bargain Nuc for £120 compared to what others were paying (£190). The bargains at the end were ok, could not believe how much somme ppl paid for some bits tho and as said before was cheaper inside! I do hope the WBCs got...

Thank you for your replies, i think this has happened because our hive is now massive and i cannot get over how many bees are in there now! Thanks again

I too have branded my hives with my initial and surname. I have also branded all frames too so it they run off with the frames there maybe some hope, but hopefully being on a secure apairy this won't happen. i was tempted to get motion cameras to detect if anyone or thing did cross the path of...

Thanks for replies, no swarm was caught 20 miles away from our apairy and our hive has a good strong queen seen at every inspection so far. Will remember to put a queen excluder under the brood box next time!

We caught a swarm last thursday and hived it around 8pm into a 14x12 hive. This was the first time we had done this and not everything went according to plan but in the end we were happy that they were all in the hive. We checked the hive Friday morning and all seemed ok with lots of workers...

we did exactly the same, caught a good swarm on Thurs pm, was in the hive yesterday, gone today, have learnt from my mistake, will now put QX under brood box for a while.

We have exactly the same and i started to panic too but as you say there is still plenty of worker brood. Glad i am not the only one worried.

She is very talented! and the goldie is even bettershe gets the fox and chips for t!

i have a brilliant fox alarm in the form of a Harris Hawk, she screams everytime he comes into the garden! and he gets spuds thrown at him!:)

Male: No, Old: i hope not. i'm the grand age of 25, so hopefully many years of bee keeping ahead of me yet

Hi, i use liquid smoke for my fairly placid bees, it works but i don't think it is as effective as proper smoke, but works well if you have calm tempered bees

Yes, I brought this book on the offer, its really good, got some fantastic pics too, well worth the £10!

Becareful with anticoagulant poisons as other predators such at birds of prey etc can get 2ndry posioning and haemorrhage to death. Traps are better.

Snow has arrived in North Kent, and hasn't stopped so far!snow day at home!

my order arrived really quickly, the quality is good, i have even ordered more, ordered frames, 14x12 BBs, roof, OMF, supers etc all gd quality

I use liquid smoke, and works perfectly well, cautious about starting fires with a proper smoker as in a country park with very dry grass.