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Glade air freshener works well

so what price are you guys selling it for these days, everything in the super market has gone up 20% so the same should apply to us

feed 1:1 if there are no stored honey

sealed and unsealed drone comb, nothing to worry about

Providing the queen had room to lay and the BB was not filled with honey then you have swarmy bees, best to re queen if that’s the case had one myself

Just the usual, nothing exciting

Spring was a washout but the last few weeks have been great, for once we have had more dry days than rainy ones since the blackberry has been in flower

Poly hives you can use any paint you want as polystyrene is non porous, however wood hives need to breath so a breathable flexible paint is advisable. I use Cuprinol garden shades. You can also use linseed oil or nothing on cedar hives if you like the natural look I wouldn’t use dark colours as...

Spreading pheromones using her Nasonov's gland, unusual for one bee to do it though

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Nice one Rab, bitter sweet as usual. Give the guy a chance he’s gone a bit rusty that all, a quick spray with WD 40 and he’ll be as good as new 🤣

A herd of horses trampled a few of my hives and require 3 nucs

Sunflowers and HB

If the hive is crammed then I would add a super. The last thing you want is a hive swarming this time of year as you need strong colonies going into winter. Split is an option and buy a mated queen but you can do that next year in swarm season

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I’m a lefty, makes no difference to me what hive tool I use, even used a pen knife when I forgot to take my hive tool with me.

Have you filtered it ?

Personally I would wait until swarm season, old queen in nuc, with brood and stores (feed if there are no stores ) and shake the young bees from the supers into the nuc, move six foot + so flying bees return to the old hive. Or make up a nuc with a queen cell, three frames of emerging brood and...

Sound advice Rab