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5000 killed by using smokers? :eek:

I extract straight into buckets with gates and eliminate transfer wastage.

There's no end of things that could be done but I like my mods to be reversible without evidence. I might end up having to sell kit. Given a choice I would buy the kit that hadn't been butchered. My point was to have the tunnel exiting well within the nuc so the wasps cannot run up the...

When the things were thirty quid If have done that. Now they're doubled in price they've become a little more sacred...

So that could be pretty much any smoker in use today. But far less of a hazard than particulate from car exhausts,tyres and brake linings,wood burners,two stroke engines,factories.......... ;)

Its getting a structure to pass through the hole without modifying the polyhive itself and then being low enough to have beespace under the frames that's the project. Failing that it would be to replace the mesh with a ufe. (or part mesh part ufe) If still tunnel to the front of the hive to be...

In looking into making something that protrudes into the box more to stop the wasps from scampering up the inside of the wall. But it has to be shallow enough not to get propolised to the frames. The Maisemores floor in post 4049 was easy as I just extended the existing 'tunnel' over the mesh...

The dispensing spoon supplied does that job too. The caps can get hot and stuck so I 'polished ' them hard with some brutal 40grit abrasive cloth.I can change them easily wearing standard marigolds. The great thing about this discussion is that without realising it everyone has flagged up that...

Having the nozzle too far into the gasvap caused reliability issues with torches as did lighting with the dial too high. Once warmed up I keep mine running until all the hives are completed.

I guess if someone paid full whack for the complete kit they would be underwhelmed a bit as it seems the third party lamp is a problem. I got the bare gasvap and put my own cheapo lamp to it,trained myself (its not a plug and play sort of product-thats where I think people get themselves against...

I do the nuc method as you can control the age of bees that are doing the acceptance.

I vape with a perspex eke and observe the plume deployed consistently over 15-20 hives We must be doing it differently ....

Puzzled why you need to control the temperature on your gas Vap? Once everything is warmed up I dial down the flame to absolute minimum and it works just fine there. Its all mounted in a tripod stand and once running I don't switch it off until I've done all the hives.

Do it. I vaped in the rain last week. That was fun.

APC. They also sell other useful stuff used in in beekeeping like acetic acid and isopropyl alcohol

According to some research it's an ideal time to hit them before they begin their winter build-up and the traditional late December puffing we do is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic

I find they don't seem bothered with each other as long as they have enough to do.

I do wonder about the economics of their venture-risks vs return? With a breeder and/or some decent f1 queens and a few feral swarms you could have almost duplicated that haul within a few years at no risk of prosecution.

I'm keeping to my regime. Bought in bulk there's no restrictions on the label....

Is the replacement a fibreglass bottle type or a proper biodisc?. We had a cottage by a river once and the brick septic tank had the effluent level rising and falling to match the river. We moved before the E A knocked on the door.