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I am closing this thread as it promotes the use of unlicensed drugs in beekeeping.

Winchester :calmdown: I have not had an email from the nbu yet..

Thread shuts at midnight...

Calm it down please and play nice.... Admin.

I wish I had sold popcorn at the start of this thread,I would be rich.. :sport-smiley-002::lurk5:

I am only talking from my experience here,a friend purchased 4 queens from a company in the UK that sells nucs with imported queens last year. He offered me a couple of frames for grafting. I grafted about 12 queens and picked the best 2 to use. Around the new year I treated both hives and...

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I have a very good friend who I have mentored the last 4 years. He has really come on in leaps and bounds and has now got to the stage of having nucs for sale. They are on 5 frames and all queen's he grafted himself late 2017. They all overwintered well and were treated during the cold weather...

Yep mine,nearly every year I get one or two were I check all 11 frames while shaking bees off and I still manage to miss a queen cell. Although I do wear my glasses 100% of the time now under my veil and it does seem to of cured the problem. Not collected swarms for a few years now,my queen...

harris 5 metre paint pole from b+q or homebase ect. used mine many many times... https://www.homebase.co.uk/harris-trademate-5m-extension-pole_p396094

3-4 members are about to go on holiday with a 3 month ban from the forum. :ban: :adminpower:

Tip the brood box at 45deg leaving the floor behind and smoke the bottom bees up,have a good look for any queen cells. It's not perfect but it will help. Don't worry about bees hanging out at night,all the foragers are home and they need to drop the humidity so the nector can be reduced below...

Pitfulls,you have to find the queen first then find and destroy every queen cell at fixed intervals of around 6 days,pretty sure at some point you will be knocking them off in the rain. Miss one and it's a pretty big prime swarm you are losing.

Talk to Carl he has plain white boxes in bulk or small amounts. He is a member of the forum username sipa I have just bought some off him.

Play nice ! You no the rules:if you are going to kick sand in another members face then I will ban you from the sandpit. Or I might even take away the finger paints and bucket and spades..

I was taught it goes: Baking soda--washing soda--caustic soda. Making cakes--cleaning clothes--unblocking drains.

Don't tell him pike

Rucher = Apiary. Looks like the lower south east of france area.

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