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had a bait hive up in the garden for a while finally had some interest. came home Friday, bees in and out seemed like a lot of scouts,,, Saturday not so ... cold and rain all quiet. Sunday sunny bees busy and expecting a swarm but nothing. Peeked in this evening looks like a small cast :(...

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yep spot on that's what i think it is :iagree:

Banned ooh how did I missed that!

thanks Dani I used Apivar last year but was curious about Apitraz given Robin's recommendation

[QUOTE="robinharman, Apitraz in August was fantastic last year, can you still buy it? BS Honey says its discontinued??

@pargyle Hi Philip if you have off cuts would be interested in some for my m***emore Commercial Poly Nucs as Crown Boards + HOLE Dimensions 504mm x 308mm or there abouts x 6 please no rim

strange hardly any activity in my part of Norfolk... a few scout bees around an empty hive in my garden the first sign of anything.

checked my nucs today - 2 with new queens accepted 4 with queens laying well two of them will need hiving soon as this rate. Quite a happy bunny :)

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Goo Good luck!

Hi Ben Bee Quick works well have used it in chimnies and an air brick last Friday which was having lots of interest from scout bees... worked a treat. I tend to spray the area but on Friday as I could access from inside via a vent so sprayed some bits of cloth with Bee Quick and inserted them...

Cool thanks wasnt judging just making you aware if the trap was on your land? for info we trap crows but for nature conservation reasons only not game rearing.

you can use another crow or magpie in a Larsen trap... but follow the best practice guidelines! the bird to be caught (crow or magpie) reacts to the caged interloper in their territory... to use any other type of bird as 'bait' is strictly illegal...

"forgive me my question,Jolanta its buckfast bee line ,or more to carniola thank you" from BMH web page ... "The Jolanta UK mated queens are bred from selected mothers which derive from high scoring colonies within Murray McGregor's UK operation (over 5000 colonies). With a leaning towards...

Ive used an electric hot air paint stripper (old Black and Decker) which seems to be effective for scorching hives etc at home/workshop use ...

it worked for me just copy and paste to your browser...

"Another use of a skep hive was as a weapon of war." the first cluster bomb ;) 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝

Yep, realising that!I have the Haynes manual. Lurching from crisis to crisis is not the best approach.I'll not to plague you with anymore questions. Thanks for the help its been very useful. Im going to tackle this head on tomorrow and hopefully salvage something from the situation. keep at it...

yes thats how i do it although i have langs and commercials so short lugs