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Basically I would like to do some swarm control without having to find the queen.

would it be possible to put the brood box on top of a new box without a queen excluder smoke them down then add the queen excluder after?

Hi all, I hope everyone is good and keeping safe. Anyway I'm just wondering about a method of swarm control I heard about at a meeting but I didn't catch the full piece. From what I got is that you put an empty brood box on the bottom with new foundation or empty drawn frames. Then you shake...

Good day all, I hope everyone is keeping well in these times. Just a quick question I did a small few sections last year on hanging section frames and they turned out well. I'm just wondering can I convert a national super (poly) to hold sections so I don't have to buy a load of hanging section...

Hi All, This question has probably been asked before but anyway. My last 2 crops of honey set in the jars within a week or so. Now my neighbor who lives about 200 m down the road has runny honey in his jars (I know it depends on the flower type etc) I’m just wondering am I jarring it wrong or...

Cheers all it’s actually quite amazing the difference and you would think they’d be more or less on the same sources

It’s probably a silly question but I’ll ask anyway, I have jarred honey which has crystallised but my neighbor who lives about 100 m away his honey is runny why is this? It’s probably to do with the flowers but the difference is quite a lot mine is set and yellow and his is runny and gold...

How’s it goin, I have one hive which has no worker brood and I can see one or 2 eggs literally the odd one or 2 eggs there is some drone brood and still drones. I also can’t find a queen but I never can. Now I have a weak nuc which has a non laying queen (I’ve seen it) in it should I join the...

Just found parts on the safnatura site we’ll see how long it takes to get here now Cheers

Cheers I’ll buy it off you if it doesn’t cost a fortune to post to Ireland. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find parts for extractors that don’t cost a fortune “Redwood” cheers I had a look there but it’s the drive gear I’m after.

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It was about €340 from an apparently reputable site but I won’t be buying from there again. I’ll see if I can fix it another way

Ive tried the place i bought it from but they dont supply them anymore and theres no makers name on it.

Does anyone know where I can get a gearwheel for a manual extractor (or a way of repairing it) The gear is a cylindrical type with a spring underneath it. Ive tried ebay but no luck. Cheers

Once you have these new queens what are you going to do with them. Do you have enough nucs boxes to hold them in until they are needed? I have about 5 nuc boxes and 4 mating hives. I was planning on keeping them in these until needed and if it ends up I don't need them maybe they will...

Hi, Just one question I am thinking of rearing a few queens this year as last year I got 3 queenless hives an the year before I got one so i want to keep some queens just in case as I lost a hive last year due to being queenless. I can find a lot of info on grafting and various other methods...

Hi All, This is the second year running that my bees haven't drawn out comb I the super. The brood box was full in around May and there was a super added. I've tried spraying sugar water on the wax leaving out the queen excluder but for some reason They won't go up I have 2 over wintered nucs...

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Hi Just a question does anyone have a cheap way of wrapping hives for winter I know most people don't do it but I had good experience with it last year (until i made mistake by opening it too early) but lagging jackets are fairly expensive and for 8 hives its not feasable to spend E25 per hive...

Problem is there are not too many bees left less than a frame. Is there anyway of telling if the bees are going to kill her prior to her being released? I am going to add more candy to the cage entrance to give her a bit more time in the cage