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Let me try to understand what has happened, You have decided to take down a post that was live for 20 hours ish that made serious allegations about my company’s integrity, then when I posted a response detailing the truth you decided to take my posts down! No apology for allowing it to stay up...

My point earlier was, if you intend to raise more drones the balance of the hive will change, you need to add frames of emerging brood from another hive to care for them.

There is no evidence to suggest the brood suffers any significant size differences when using a small cell, Tom Seeley has done work on this. Along with work on the other contentious area, of less varroa in smaller cells.

Of course they do, I am just saying it could be one of many reasons to vacate a hive, just trying to show a thread of similarity with some of the issues, no studies or research just experience in my own apiaries, yours may be different !

Hi Richard, You would be better off separating the two, crossing is unreliable and while I disagree that they always turn spiteful sometimes you will lose the best traits from each one. Breed either Buckfast or Blacks, increasing the drone population is a good idea to increase the mating...

Maybe it is one of the many reasons they swarm ! the first thing a swarm does is draw new foundation !

I am pleased to say that Michael Collier is one of our presenters at Beetradex on the 12th March, undoubtedly one of the best in the UK, he has worked on some big commercial bee farms. The full program of speakers will start to be released next week, concentrating on Queen and bee breeding.

We supply them with a foundation that is thicker than they would produce, the heat it and mould it into the cells they use. If you put fresh foundation into the hive they can smell it and react in my opinion and experience by producing more brood.

Well, when I teach, I use this as a way of explaining how simple the hive is. You would not want to rear your family in dirty or unhygienic environment You would not store your food in a dirty kitchen or used dustbin You would not wear your dirty gardening gloves to prepare food for your...

Putting a swarm trap next to the hive you think is going to swarm is pointless, the short version is:- they will settle close by to regroup, scout bees will find a new how a long way from the hive/apiary a bait hive 50 mts away would be more useful. They need a reason to drop in to a new...

We have had to replace the tooling for the 14x12 they will be back at the end Feb

The BFA have these details, we advertise regularly and as a BFA member you can get free tickets for Beetradex. It is not fair for me to answer questions about my business interests on this part of the forum, please look at the sponsor section

On a day when the bees are flying I believe it is always preferable to open if you are worried, you may be able to help in some way

I don't need anything else, that I know about, the problem is you don't know what you don't know .................yet

Our sweet deals this week includes wood

I know you are going to think I am commenting for all the wrong reasons but I would just caution against pallets, a quick search on the web produced this. “Newer British, Canadian and American pallets, for example, are largely safe as most are heat- or pressure-treated rather than being...

Really no problem ;)

Beetradex, the wax exchange details will be confirmed and published during the first two weeks of February along with other information ;)

That's fine, I am getting used to being knocked, mind you if you can get that to work I will give you a free stand :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Thanks, Swarm (y)