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agog - did it work?

still waiting for an experienced voice of reason.................................

if you found vendors via the bay or otherwise you could see where their premises are and find out if collection is possible :)

Have you tried the bay of the e?

Love the idea of the camo netting! Minimal cost and if it can fool the man who put it there....... :)

hmmm, ownership of bolt cutters and/or industrial wire cutters doesn't entitle anyone to my hives!

so....what measures, if any, do others use to beef up security? We have ours at our allotment so although there are gates etc a determined thief could get in. Apart from a rabid dog chained to the hive what sensible precautions can we take?

hand cream This hand cream is simple but lovely and very effective - without the scented oils it is suitable for the most sensitive skins. Happy lotioning and potioning :) Beeswax Handcream 80 ml sweet almond oil 10gms beeswax Drops of scented oil if desired (Sweet almond and scented oils...

waiting with bated breath.............

Thanks we will try to restrain ourselves then.... new beeks want to fiddle too much! Should we feed colony A (parent colony) though they do have stores...... *thinking* if we take the supers we can then treat for nosema and feed at the same time. still listening to advice though before action...

Nosema - we attended an association testing evening so we know we have a heavy load on that colony. We are assuming we missed a Q cell or two and a newly hatched Q absconded - we missed two weeks of inspections due to poor weather conditions. We assume we are Q- as there are no eggs, the colony...

well! I can't believe no-one has commented..... on your own heads be it when we mess it all up, you have been warned :)

Can you treat for both at the same time time or would that overload their systems?

adding: colony A has a nosema problem we were debating how to treat as well.... would recombing them onto the swarm's fresh foundation help to reduce the nosema load? What to do with the two supers full from colony A? I told you we had questions... :)

I will try to be clear and brief. We are looking for advice about possibly recombining a swarm with it's parent colony. Colony A - parent colony. (we think Q hatched around 30/4) Colony B - result of AS from colony A (AS was done 17/4) Colony C - not related. Swarm 18/5 - we think from...

*doing happy dance* we had our first swarm arrive in our bait hive in the garden! Pleased much. Probably a cast swarm as not very big (to our obviously untrained eyes) but now hived with much satisfaction.

Is that the Boots value range? - last time I was in they were dirt cheap and have exactly the same ingredients but a fraction of the cost of others. The packaging is the 'look I'm a cheapskate' variety but I don't care!

wish I lived closer *sigh* there are no flippin swarms round here!

greenurbanliving, brilliant, thanks for that - so simple it's beautiful, I even have three of those polystyrene (euugh to the feel but nevermind) boxes, I knew they would come in handy :)