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Hawthorn finished, blackberry flowering

What climate change ?

They have never made more queen cells in my experience but sods law and all that

Sorry for your loss drex If you know approximately the age of the cells you could pull one and see

There are many ways of doing an artificial way and most beekeepers have tailored their own way of doing things, personally I would leave the hive supers where they are and remove the queen with a few frames of brood and place them in a nuc a few meters away.

The important part of scorching a hive/hive parts is to burn the propolise until it bubbles, when cooled it can be easily removed.

That looks like bee poop, is there any inside the hive and to be sure it’s not nosema get them tested Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Bin it and buy a wire one instead is the easiest solution, otherwise as what finman said Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Requeening an aggressive hive is not an easy task, some will refuse a new queen, eggs and queen cells

Nissan, toyota, Mazda and mitsubishi make extremely good pick ups, if I had to choose one it would be the Mitsubishi. Ford Ranges was up there but sadly without the Mazda backing/partnership they are no longer the truck they were. They use Ford Transit engines and the first off the production...

If you buy one book then it's plane sailing, just follow the book so to speak, but with two books you start getting conflicting beekeepers, by three books it all starts getting very messy, four any you're done for good. If you don't want too much scientific facts and figures and just want to...

Amazon isn't always the cheapest place, one must shop around to get a real bargain

You’re quite right it is dubbin. I’m not making it for myself it’s for a friend who is an avid biker who is dissatisfied with the commercial sprays available. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

:iagree: I learnt the hard way but now I have all the bits and bobs stacked in my outer apiaries and a boot full of you never knows.

Thank you Danni :cheers2:

I eliminate the itching by putting a hair drier close as I can bare to the infected area for as long as I can. Also works on horsefly bites. The heat will destroy the protein in the sting/bit

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If you look at the bit that joins the thorax to the abdomen it narrows to a sharp point rather than a thick joint, its something I have notices on a couple of colonies that I have seen with black bees and AMMs http://www.sicamm.org/WhatApis.html

I dare not comment until proven a viable hive. Somethings do bother me though, one being there are no lugs on the frames for easy removal when the bees glue them down,will those round frames fit any current extractors. Can anyone tell me the methodology and are there any in practice now.

I think Popeye would have a job moving one's that size, however you could remove a couple of frames at a time if it suits your beekeeping style