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shook them out, dry sunny and 15 degrees Shook them in the middle of the apiary so they have 5 other homes to beg their way into.

I don't know whether workers or dlq I didn't spot the queen and light was too poor to look for multiple eggs Hive had patchy brood and stuffed full of drones I will just shake them out, the Nuc looks plenty strong enough to make it through winter in poly

Ah! Thanks JBM

Guess I was asking whether better to shake out or Remove the hive and replace with a nuc, any flying bees would return to Nuc and boost it Don't want to overwhelm the queen in the Nuc though

Found a hive full of drones and drone brood Not a packed hive but still quite full. Rather than shaking ithe hive out, I was wondering if I just move the hive off the stand and replace it with a small Nuc, I could mop up the workers from the hive when they fly back to the stand Would this risk...

Really? Sounds like he is suggesting removing all the capped frames of brood (and therefore removing any mites that would be sheltered from Oxalic Acid sublimations) from hive 1 Putting these frames of capped brood on a weak hive to strengthen it Then applying OA to the hive containing all...

I also have one from Aldi and it is brilliant at warming buckets of honey and parsturising apple juice Takes up a lot of space the rest of the year though!

Deal with problem colonies early Starting out 80% of my honey came from 20% of the hives. Cull the underperformers and the "*******s", you won't lose much and life will be oh so much easier!

I found some sponges in a plastic bag tucked away from last year...they just crumbled away to the mesh inside the sponge. I think that the OA has degraded the sponges more than the bees

Part of the joy of this site is in the tangential nature of much of the responses :LOL:

Stonleigh was really close, Telford was not too far either but I was busy this weekend so didn't make it. I can however report that I saved a fortune this weekend by not going!!

Over thinking! I don't think an extra half mm depth to a cell will make an iota of difference, unless you are thinking of selling cut comb or you have made a half inch slab of foundation

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Mine had a screw holdng the heat shield on which was loose. Allowed the pressure to escape as screw went into the eating chamber.....tightened the screw and back to full function! There are no moving parts!

Sublime = Solid to Gas Evaporate - Liquid to Gas Gaseous OA condences back to Solid What's the difference?

It looks like the bees must have dived into the cells to get a last gulp of oxygen The comb looks like a severe case of starvation with comb full of dead bees Will spray the frames with a dilute bleach solution and then rinse with fresh water and shake out the frames a couple of times before...

Put it in the dishwasher with the lid on tight

Thanks, I had not thought of freezing the frames, that is a good idea. Getting them home and rinsing with fresh water before shaking the water out was what I planned, at least that would get the worst of the mud off and out of the cells. Would not use the honey other than to feed the bees, or...

I have had some hives flooded and have lost the bees. The hives were washed off the stands, some were strewn over the field and recovered and others are heading down to the Bristol channel, I have recovered some of the boxes and have been through them and shaken the drowned bees off the comb and...