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Just revisiting this - my faithful cheap large dadant has died - it had the build of a coke can, and that useless hook of bent tin to prize it open; the stapled together and rusted on bellows did for it. Not looking to splash the cash unnecessarily, but with colony numbers hopefully getting back...

I've got 2, one is v heavy ply so I bought one from HumbleBee but I seem to have managed to lose suction somehow, probably my own fault but in theory, it should do the job perfectly. I like the look of the big bucket one that guy has been making recently at the various shows

Okay, my lungs will hold you liable though ;-p

I've got a 3M 4277 + half face mask for using oxalic on a swarm tomorrow - I see the filters need replacing every season, is there not a more environmentally/reusable alternative going forward? Cheers

I'm still waiting on an order from February, despite two emails chasing them up...

My OSR apiary is a 32 mile round trip - and I'm still not that confident with rhombus boards (works perfectly at times, at others seems to clear only 2/3 of the bees into an empty super, nadired below.), particularly with the OSR crystallising horror tales you hear of. At what point does a...

Cheap and cheerful, wasn't expecting much from it tbh, but my HumbleBee ventilated suit is as cool as my maisemore ventilated one and is the only one of 6 suits I've tried that let's me see eggs easily. Never tried a Sherriff, and tried the Clearview too.

Reminds me, I mean to buy some queens from Stuart this year!

Isn't shipping free if you can pick it up from Murray en route as he heads down to his Herefordshire sites? I was thinking of meeting him on the A74 and saving myself the postage next year

Like everyone else, I'm faced sometimes with the bees refusing to work fresh foundation in supers, regardless of how well developed and teeming the supers above might be. I usually leave the QE off for a decent while to allow Queen Footprint Pheromone etc to disseminate more readily and I don't...

Genius!

I don't get the fuss about Seeley's books, read Honeybee Democracy and the one on bee-lining and he kinda... drones on in a v dry way. The new Stevd Donohoe/Paul Horton book is cracking!

I did it once, but I think I git away with it #don'tmentionthewar

You can, I was v pleased with the results. I got banned from the kitchen though, quite unreasonably I think.

Old thread I appreciate, but is sugar soap okay to use on poly? I've a load of nucs that got pressed into service before I could paint them and now before I do, thought I should get rid of the algae on the outside before sloshing the masonry paint on. Sugar soap has worked brilliantly on caravan...

Thanks, Emyr - was really imagining it to be the case.

I live in the same town so can walk 800m and see them for free!

I was foolish enough to miss The Beekeeping Show in February which looked great as a tradeshow - I'm 200 miles from Harper Adams, in Northumberland, and just wondering how great the BBKA Spring Convention is from others experience? I'm not interested in making flowers out of wax etc, nor...

Just the basic green plastic BS National's from Maisemore- they fit perfectly, cheap and cheerful. I've got 30 + of the 12 framers and I love them

I love an auction, but worth venturing down from Northumberland next year for?