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Just to say that i reckon your right in your timing, but, this spring we had a lot of cold nights,, exactly the same here in North brittany. in my hives, the crystallisation was all int he extremities if the frames. none where the cluster was there permanently. I say crystallisation will happen...

so, i am asking this question as my colleague tells me its becoming popular by some queen and nuc rearers in France. i would be really interested to hear what everyone thinks. to me it has merit. Firstly, you insert a started cell in to a queen less colony, in this case it would be a recently...

Swarms are a different beast altogether,( as Yorkrshirebees just said) they are monster comb builders. if you have supers you want to get builtout, stick a load on and feed em tons of syrup, they just keep going. Its a lot cheaper to build out frames with syrup rather than honey. If i remember...

did you listen to the commentary, "oh my goodness, Were going to die" Sooooooooo Lame!!!!

Happy Birthday Peter Little. Thanks for all you work on the Forum!! have a great Day!!! :cheers2:

:iagree:Such drossy journalism. i reckon its all fake. total rubbish. we see this so ofter, we saw it when the Asian Hornet started to inch closer, the headlines were quite incredible. Pure lunacy

Yes, yes and yes, sickening isn't it. We do all the right things (supposedly) and other do completely arse about face and they get the swarms !! :hairpull:

It was a one off and how often would it happen?. She obviously ok, not very pleasant for her, but it could be any lane in any part of the country. I hope you dont get asked to move because its a storm in a teacup really. The problem is , people who get bees in their hair just prance around...

:iagree: Justsmith, its you that decides where they go, you must be firm and selective and it has to work for both parties completely. Be fair and firm you cant have issues where you cant have access at certain times. B+ is bang on the mark farms are your best bet. i have 12 apiaries now, when...

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He will Have brood if he puts the frames on top of a other colonies and sticks a queen above a queen excluder etc, they will build them up dead quick. We do this for the Next two to three weeks, then when we have enough brood we make up More mini plus. Don't know if we're talking about two...

When we make ours up we put in at least one frame of brood, another partial, i frame of honey and 2 or three foundation (depending on how much made up the previous brood and at least a kilo plastic honey pot scoop of bees or equivalent.

:yeahthat::thanks: Yes thank you for that, very interesting. Can you post a few pics of what ekes you use, on a dry run without vapour etc. Would be very useful. Thanks in advance

Your on a good track, I've heard through a friend who been sublimating through a top cover and its more successful. I think Hivemaker (Peter Little) has done a lot of work trying this out. He might be able to shed more light on the success rate. I will be getting a Sublimox later this year and...

Cleaning up nucs, scraping out and blowtorching. Going through new frames at a rate of knots! lots and lots on. Queen cells in to the incubator tomorrow. Second set straight in afterwards. Then another cell builder stocked tomorrow. another 28mm of rain last night!! lovely!!

I've learnt the hard way, like a lot have. But, if you get any calls, always try and establish by careful interrogation, what the nest or bees actually look like. About 5 or 6 times a year i get a call saying" there is bees in my chimney". i ask how long they have been there and they say, since...

Were having a bit of a difficult spring here, Like you we had no rain for about 6 weeks, until last week, then 40mm on to bone dry OSR )(that was only a week until its finished but still a lot of flowers), that hadn't given much for the last 3 weeks, so the few hives that had supers on, say 30%...

There should be no need to contemplate that, good queen cells are born with a load royal jelly still in the top of the cell on the day of hatching. If you raise you own queens you wont need to even attempt this because your working with your bees, raising queens when your bees would do this...

First Cell Builder of the season yesterday, grafted in the evening. Lovely to be grafting again. Feeling good!!! http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=14311&stc=1&d=1493844348

Nothing, howling winds and Pixxing down, but hey we needed that rain! Cell builder stocked and ready, day 11 after adding brood tomorrow, hope they dont go when the sun shines. she's a monster in waiting. Will come home from work early and make it hopelessly queen less at midday!! Thankfully...