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Did u accidently build the box skewed which results to having a gap? When assembling always remember to check for square before nailing it together Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk

Is it the time to vape now? Thought vaping should be done when there is no brood? Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk

i use my airing cabinet where the house water storage tank resides. as long as the door's shut, i get about 38 to 40deg constant temp there.

Ah OK that might be the reason why mine kept coming up then, I didn't have duct tape. yeah i put the brood frames all at the bottom brood box, as i run double brood box for this hive. Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk

i tried the method MIke palmer suggested that to start, because i thought i was given a silly suggestion when mentor told me to pour out all the bees to the ground.... Intending to use top brood box as a funnel, seive all the bees through the QX, and hope the queenwill be seived like a pebble...

Whilst at this topic, where removal of old queen is necessary, is there an effecient method to effeciently find the queen amongst the mayhem, than the standard method of spotting 1 in 30000? there are times when the queen is smart and not easily spotted (she might have just moved as the frame...

Go to your local beekeeping club, take a sample of honey. I think your beekeeping club will have a decent refractometer that is accurate (not ebay one). Take a reading of your sample of honey from the beekeeping club's refractometer, then put same sample on yours. Calibrate yours to the same...

I think that's chloroform, or if animals is formaldehyde... Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk

i think your association's arrangement with the trail run nuc for £10 and subsequently £40 as such is brilliant, alot of ppl underestimate the amount of work that is involved in a new hobby so this gives them the "bail out" option if they can't commit after 1 season. This gives me an idea for...

I now started to use nail varnish to mark queen's. It stays on her longer. I used the water based posca pen previously but if u accidently dribble nectar or she got some honey on her during an inspection whatsoever, the bees will clean her and due to liquid on the paint, it will tend to make it...

i did the same last friday, then monday got a DPD email saying arriving yesterday and got it in the evening. all unpacked and stored and whatever needs using is used! :)

that's what i call a bumper harvest!!! i sometimes wonder how true is it when ppl say there is a June gap?

ah i shared a 2 frame motorised extractor with a friend in april, came from czech republic, originates from china, and bought via ebay. (irony of international multi level marketing!) £145 quid, so between us i think its a bargain under £75 quid per person, only thing about 2 frame i just...

was googling fibreglass hive roofs and came across this thread.. so resurrecting this thread abit... i plan to coat the external of my DIY hive roofs with fibreglass resin, currently i use foil tape which is water proof but when i flip it upside down on the ground during inspection, the...

sounds good, sorry as a newbie so some of my questions could be quite basic.. i know that if super frames are capped they usually are ready to harvest but from sounds of what you are doing do you just keep adding more super boxes and frames when the frames are gradually filled? since u did not...

Ahh thats good to know! i think i will do the same, its generally ppl in the beekeeping association that told me best to harvest late july/early august as that's the end of the flow, but i do find we are in urban areas in outskirts of london we have slight advantage of alot of flowers etc for...

ohh sorry i did not make it clear, i don't mean introduction of queen in late season. i meant if the queen dies or i remove her to nuc and let the colony raise a new queen cell again at that time in august. my only worry is there may not be enough drones then for mating. resulting in poorly...

thats good to hear! so i'd let nature take its course if the old queen is worn and went beyond the sell by date!

i think have to wear it tight against the head. i have had that experience too, maybe a drawstring under the chin is the answer.

hi guys... If dire, is August still an ok time to requeen? i understand best time for requeening would ideally be spring.. i have an old 2, maybe 3 year old queen which is from a swarm last year, and with her prolific laying this spring, plus me being a newbie and failing to notice she's...