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9 out of the 12 grafts have taken, well pleased and will be doing it this way from now on. Darren

This past few years i have been grafting into a queenless hive and let all the queens hatch out into the hair roller cages, this year i have tried the Ben Harden way with a queen right colony, can i let the queens hatch into the cages or do they have to be removed before they hatch? can't seem...

Just received an email from a farmer who has spring beans in and wouldn't mind a few hives set near them, are they of any use to honey bees? Cheers Darren

It was only water based paint and i am in different houses every week decorating and this has never happened before, plus the front and back doors were both open so a draft was going through the house, each day within 5 minutes of the slurry going on the fields the alarms went off, the field...

they are mains supplied, even with the trip off they were still singing away, in the end i had to get out of it, painting is hard enough at times without listening to that racket. Darren

Can slurry set off fire alarms? i have been working in a house and both yesterday and today three smoke alarms in the house have been screaming for hours when fields only yards from the back and front door have been getting covered in slurry,it can't be anything else and have never heard of this...

Hey all i have a friend who has 15 hives in two different parts of the county here and not one of them have made any signs of wanting to swarm yet, he has kept bees for over 40 years and has always had swarm cells before this time of year. They all have roughly a super each on with queen...

cheers, didnt realise it was a fly eater as well.

It was growing up in the mountains along the side of a path? cheers Darren.

this might have been worth a go?? copied from the welsh beekeepers' website. Snelgrove II – Modified version The sequence of manipulations is shown in Figure 3:- a) The hive is dismantled as if for an artificial swarm; with the brood and supers in two stacks. b) A new deep box of combs is placed...

I haven't a queen excluder on any of my hives this year to see how it goes, Whats the worst that can happen??? Darren

I grafting ten apple trees in january and at the minute they seem to be taking ok, i haven't done it much before but should i knock off all the blossoms on the grafts to make them put there strength into joining rather than the flowers or just leave them to it?? Darren

i went for the Dr. Slick Synthetics Scissors Straight Serrated Blade for Fly Tying, and clipped a good few queens yesterday, worked very well. Darren

what scissors or clippers do people use for clipping there queens? looking to buy a pair but not sure what to go for, cheers Darren

i had around a dozen over wintering in the roof space of my hives and all got spared. when they start annoying my bees i'll look into it further maybe. Darren.

i got a few very big buckets from the local swimming pool,the Chlorine came in them and they are very strong indeed. Darren

are you getting your bees local? if so and if the nuc is good and full could you not take your hive round and let the supplier have the bees in your own hive ready for you to collect, might be handier for you? Darren

I had a hive that didn't make it through the winter and they were getting robbed out a month ago on any good day that was. Darren

When a hive is going to swarm would good forage be a factor in where they move to? Darren

Is it true that for a good flow on the heather in late summer it needs to be a very wet spring?? is there any truth in this?? Darren