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With nothing covering the OMF in nucs? Would be delighted to hear that works, currently contemplating how to temporarily block the OMF in my nucs for the Instantvap.

Sod's Law, I'd just decided to go with the Abelo 'cleaning' strips to clean my out apiaries and save me repeated sublimation visits, but looks like these are all I can find https://konigin.com.pl/en/categories/666-paski-z-kwasem-szczawiowym.html and I can make better ones a la Randy Oliver...

So, Emyr - do you use your Instantvap on OMF nucs or only on hives where you can insert the foam or dropings board? Cheers

Thanks for this, my debit card was burning a hole in my pocket and I can't justifiably explain any more bee-related purchases as I've got industrial quantities of frames, hives, OA and fondant - this fits the bill! I swear we're all bloody addicted. It's an utter obsession 😩

Just a cautionary and not prohibitory tale - I tried moving into commercial beefarming whilst working full-time and it's 4yrs since my back broke down on me, one operation later, job gone, mental breakdown and daily strength and fitness work and I'm still plagued by chronic pain - whatever you...

I think you should've read the thread from the start and you'd see that I did end up getting a Dadant, and am v happy with it. If you want to be a pedant about me using the name as descriptor instead of posting a photo of the thing, we'll be here a v long time. Or is this directed somehow at...

I thought they were tbh, in the corners of my shed in the shadows and in horizontal drainpipes down the outside and covered by borage. Still miffed the buggers chewed up my queen marking sleeve and the piss is vile (though not Weil's) in being almost greasy and requiring everything needing...

I've got traps just like that- no joy :-/

Not the title of my new band; just wondered, having used butyric acid on teatowels spread over super frames fir clearing, does anyone know if the resultant repellent smell is any good at keeping mice/rats out of my beekeeping shed? Buggers are eating the bait inside and out and STILL nibbling on...

Ditto, though it was Roger in my case

So, concensus is I'd better crack on and do it now, using the fresh drawn comb I've saved for the upper brood box and ashforth or fondant slab above? Will probably nadir a super above old box as much for storage and to serve as skatted rack as anything else, and shut bottom door so they're...

That's why we're prepared to wait until you retire ;-) We're v understanding and patient. I'm sure Steve Donohoe would help you with putting it together. Would love Mike Palmer to do the same. Tired of reading the same old BBKA party-line stuff that's just Hooper censored and regurgitated...

I think you'd be surprised - beekeeping, for those of us for whom it forms a significant part of our lives, and for whom it serves as window into the natural world and changing countryside practices would snap it up - Willie Robson wrote an excellent (though too brief) Reflections on Beekeeping...

Aye, I find the glovelets invaluable at stopping my hands smelling like a sweaty condom factory, and the fraction if extra protection against stings without losing the ability to feel the bees is v welcome. I find gloves last a lot longer too, though totally anecdotal ofc, always glad not to...

Fair enough. Jury's still out for me too on 2 in 1 nucs, though I use BS's as ordinary 6 framers and they're excellent. You're a decent stretch further north than me but I think your forage is better so often an 8 frame would suit me as an intermediate step, and certainly as a double-nuc of 16...

So I know shook swarms are looked upon poorly by many on this forum who'll have forgotten more than I'll ever learn, but I've some old, black, misshapen brood comb that's had it's fair share of chalk, sac and varroa, so I'm planning on doing a whole apiary type of Bailey Comb since each apiary...

Gulp. If I was a beekeeper who used such things and bought a 25kg tub, how many years would it (hypothetically ofc) last!?

That's their Langstroth version.

If you took the mould and removed the internal feeder, I think you'd have a pretty unique product - I'm certainly finding the bees love the nucs once butchered into 8 framers and with similarly resculpted extension boxes.

Thank god, I've just started changing my practise to their nucs with brood extension boxes as they're easier on my back and the bees draw comb quicker and survive winter better than any of my other configurations - what've you heard @pargyle ? Already kicking myself for not buying them out of...