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no i demareed before queen cells are present in bottom brood box, and they decided to make queen cells at bottom box after a few weeks of demareeing. As i moved brood from bottom BB to top BB in demareeing process, due to queen absence of top BB and with fresh brood, they formed QCs at the top...

umm the QCs are all on the face of the frames, none below the frames, despite frames having some queen cups below. both hives are also demareed as swarm control.. also i seem to have lost the queens and did not see any brood/eggs. or she could have gone off lay because of this bad weather we...

hi i have a hive ( hive 3) that i noticed that majority of cells built from this hive are drone cells. (lots of them and frames are built quite messily!) the overwintered old queen may have ran out of sperm and laid a bunch of drone brood before supercedure.. i did spot a new mated queen with...

i buy from simon the beekeeper too as i found theirs cheapest and great quality

if the wasps are too relentless might be worthwhile finding the nest and relocate or eridicate it. i know we are not keen to kill wasps as they are good pollenators etc but if its a menace we gotta do what we gotta do. Find it and relocate it would be best. i had to clear out 2 wasps nests in...

only thought is they might make more drone cells than worker cells.

hey all, just resurrecting an old thread above... from what i read, if we make our own foundation sheets SMOOTH, the bees still draw it out like one that had been embossed, have anyone tried it? if so, i think i'd give it a go and make flat sheets of wax like on this video below at 2min25s, and...

noted, thanks Dani. i was thinking to make the roof entirely from celotex and held together with the alu tape. i bought brood boxes seconds and 3rds from thorne, made my own hive floor, and thought to make simple roofs this way. i have a can of fibreglass resin maybe will paint a coat of resin...

True that once u do this it does becomes a poly hive.... :) i got some spare celotex boards i bought for my roofs, i may cut up some spares and try cladding the sides like this and give it a go. i'm in London so possibly not ridiculously cold but we never know!

i think there's no need to wrap it up like that because the bees cluster in the middle, not to the sides. not sure if completely wrapped up like this , is there a danger of moisture trapped significantly? its like putting a plastic bag over your head and breathing , over time the inside will...

i have the same thing, started as 6 frame nuc, then last month before feeding i gave them another 6 frame nuc above it, so total there are 12 frames. i think i'd leave them as is now, as they are likely to be better this way (bees goes up, less so sideways) so to avoid isolation starvation, so...

hey i saved up a container full of propolis/wax scrapings when i clean my frames and hive boxes, however they are slightly contaminated with abit of wax and some wood shavings, any way to filter/seperate it to pure propolis?

Oh, so far after inspections they are pretty good, the girls are very placid, bees turning rogue is my main concern too as don't want passerbys, postman, binman etc getting stung. I wanna modify the slats abit so they only fly up and away so their flight paths don't clash with peoples' heights...

I got a back garden to temporarily put some nucs if need to split at that time.. And once nucs established, either sell them off or keep housing at temp location.

Yeah maybe on 2nd thoughts should just stop at 2 or just the 3rd, so far this is 2nd season at this apiary (started as just overwintering a weak nuc and grew to that 2 hives) and my place here the colonies give good results hence I thought to add another 2 more, but seems I may be asking for...

The footpaths i had drawn in is private footpaths so no public access, although not fenced off, the main Road is about 25ft away from front of the hives. Have some thoughts and maybe should just stop with the 2 hives tbh.. If not careful with swarm control or hives turn rogue it's hard not to...

Lol, good thing is my neighbours all get to share my honey as I give them abit to sweeten the deal, I have been planting alot of shrubs to hide myself when I deal with the hives. My only worry is any of these hives becoming rogue, so far so good. Neighbours also rarely, only occasionally say...

Hi, due to space constraints i can only have about a small area allocated as my apiary., i currently have 2 hives (number 1 and 2 on attach 3d model) at my home apiary and was thinking to add another 2 more (number 3 and 4), however, number 3 and 4 i plan to face the fence because when...

hmmm i am not sure if the bees will move the stored syrup in brood, up to the super or not, i guess i can try because my syrup contains thymol, and if they moved it up the super will have smell of thymol? haha full

Yeah here is the pic of tabacco plants.. Was thinking to dry a few leaves in autumn and roll a couple of cigars. 😁