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Recaptured your own bees?

Similar situation with one of my poly nucs - right old mess. Now soaking in a wheely bin full of washing soda. Will be spraying my hives with Certan this year! Enough is enough

Bees hive and honey add up to a lot of money. Enough to tempt the less honest. Few of the public would think anything of someone in a bee suite loading hives onto a trailer. One option is to screw down the floor, make things a little more difficult.

Put some obstruction in front of the nuc so that the bees are aware they need to reorient and you will be fine.

I have got home after the easter break to find supers filling nicely and have put extra supers on all the hives. Now looking ahead and thinking that I have limited capacity to do that again... I have plenty of brood boxes and frames, but few super frames. May have to extract a super or two to...

Just bought one from China on AliBaBa for 11.81 See how it pans out!

Sods Law - I think that I have picked the wrong time to rehive the Nuc. The weather is about to get cold and they are in a big Hive with 5 empty frames with starter strips. Lots of hawthorn and a field of rape half a mile away is bursting into flower. Should I be feeding them too, to help them...

Nice sunny day, so I moved a nuc which was on 5 frames into a single BB. Checked and saw brood, eggs but no queen. Wasn't overly warm, so I didn't want to spend too much time so a quick scan of each frame as I transferred.. There were a few bees in the bottom of the nuc, so I shook these on top...

a number of the foundation suppliers will swap wax for finished foundation, so that might be of interest. Otherwise there are often people in the market for wax, not sure of the value though.

My sister is in devon and reported that her hive was dead today. Starved in a garden awash with blossom! Gutted as it had one of my better queens in it.

Until you try and lift it off the hive to have a look in the brood....

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I wish I had read this earlier....had to drink black coffee this morning as we had run out!

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-39947.html

This years frames, and no brood in them. Was using the lid of a poly hive as a tray to stack the supers on, so that i could feed any dripped honey back to the bees by just putting the lid on a hive. Noticed that the wax moth lavae had made bid indents into the lid. I read that they were looking...

I have had some supers in the kitchen for a week and a half waiting to extract. Got to the last one today and when I lifted it up...there were a half dozen fat caterpillars underneath. On a few frames there is caterpillar silk and droppings. I dont really think that I should be extracting the...

I tried to combine two hives. One weak hive, no queen and no eggs. Brood frames all rammed with honey. I found a single sealed queen cell, so I moved the frame to a nuc and added another of stores. Went through the hive looking for the queen three times...but didnt find her. I then moved the...

What are you using to weigh the hive?

Managed to lose a queen last night. Opened a nuc and there were a mass of nearly sealed queen cells. Some new eggs so I had a look for the queen. I went through the frames twice before I spotted her. I had a cage in my pocket so I took the frame out and managed to get the queen in. Had not...

I have just extracted a couple of brood boxes of manky old comb. Set up as follows: -Solid floor propped up on paving slabs at an angle of about 15 degrees. -Two sheets of aluminum foil lining it, joined together by folding over the seam a couple of times. -Brood boxs on top of the solid floor...