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Can any of you more learned advise of how many brood frames i should have before supering a 14x12? Thank you.

Taken on board 100%. Roger that and thank you all.

Please help me decide on the appropriate action. I have one 14x12 overwintered hive from a July nuc and this year I wish to increase it two with a back-up nuc for queen replacement etc as the original queen will be two at the end of the year/beginning of next and I'd like to be ready to replace...

I would still expect to see more than that over two weeks. I looked through the poly for ten minutes or more, all workers. Added to that ive been reading up on it over the period and apparently its not at all uncommon for a few to make it through over winter. In any case there's nothing to be...

Yeah thats true but i would have expected a considerably higher amount of drones to be obvious than just two over three visits. Wouldn't you agree? Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

I started vaping 16 days ago and finished the third vape yesterday. After the first vape i asked this question as i saw drones and the possibility of a DLQ was alluded to then. However, yesterday i looked through the poly for ages and lit the hive from the bottom and couldnt see any drones...

Hey! Listen fellas the last think i wanted to promote was an argument. Well not in that sense anyway. I think perhaps we should end this thread. Thank you to all of you for your help. Invaluable. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Millet. I don't doubt what you say and i demur to established experience but i swear, two or three of those bees were goliaths. There were a dozen or more to compare against, not that i needed to because they were without doubt bigger and more robust in every sense. I actually baulked for a...

One thing i did notice today being a newbee. When i took the foam from the entrance to replace the mouseguard. Some started coming out, nothing odd there, but jings the size of some of the bees! They looked like drones, really fat. I suppose thats good but i was taken aback a little.

I did my first ever vapr today and it went very well. But they don't like it do they. They were going bananas off the perspex cover and the roar!!! Still, medicine is rarely nice. 2nd treatment on thursday.

I hope i haven't did them any harm by feeding the fondant too early then?

Definitely wax Millet. The insulation is above the perspex. Cheers

TPIS. I don't think they have clustered. Not cold herr just damp and the last time i looked there were bees running around on the top frames. Thanks

Enrico. I'm not at all sure, could well be as that never entered my head. Fits though as i looked through the perspex a fortnight ago and the fondant was running out so maybe they're back on thr stores as the fondants ran out. Cheers

Hello everyone. Hefted the hive today, after feeding 2.5kg of fondant some weeks, mmm 4, ago it feels a little lighter but i dont think its too light. Looking under the hive i saw a lot of wax cappings. In Scotland, like most places, it hasn't been cold yet and shes obviously still laying. I...

Then that must be the answer Murox. Thank you for your reply. Appreciated. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Mmmm, thanks as ever for your help but im vexed. My '14x12' frames as i thought they were came from thornes marked DN4. I'm home now and have measured them and looked at others in my pre made-up spare jumbo box for next year. They reach the bottom of the box and the side bar is 12 inches. They...

Ahhhhh, so the DN4's are Hoffman 14x12's! Thank goodness for that. I've been using DN4's and even ordered some more as they're great but then I noticed 14x12's advertised and thought "awh naw". Cheers Murox, started panicking that I would go out to the hive in April and find all the frames...

can DN4 frames be used in a 14x12 box? Thanks for your help

Yip. It's a 14x12. It had two brood frames of honey, well 3 actually but i took one our and froze it to put in a frame of foundation, only got them in july so needed one more frame drawn to complete the hive. Rook the apivar away late august after 6 weeks and fed them with a drum of syrup from...