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Fantastic year for me and my allotment buddy. about 100kg of spuds Cabbage Cauliflower Beans (runner, french, broad) Sweet corn Kale (the big family favourite; seaweed to colcannon) Courgettes Blackcurrents Rhubarb and much more Ploy tunnel not so good. Great for early carrots and beetroot but...

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What though IS important is that you make the nucs look different to each other. This sounds like constructive advice to me.

Fred, to me the paragraph with al the "notes to self" read a bit like you were fretting. I think you may have been a bit harsh, especially since you were given good advice.

On Thursday my eldest son and I went through both brood boxes twice and did not find the queen. On Friday my youngest son and I went through both brood boxes twice and did not find her. The incipient queen cells have been expanded into full sized queen cells with grubs and not yet capped. I...

It would be an easier operation if we could find the queen. My two sons and I have been through both brood boxes four times now and not found the queen to even atempt an AS never mind a Demaree. It is very unlikely she has already gone as my wife and childrena are at home and they have not...

The wasp nest killing powder is very effective and takes a day. Far better to puff the powder in and walk away, then come back when they are dead. If it is a big nest then you may have to do it over 2 days. This has got to be better than dealing with disturbing an angry wasps nest. What...

Fantastic work on your part. It is really quite disturbing what people will do. Surely the RSPCA would be interested in taking action here? It is criminal. You should be proud of what you have done and let's hope they pull through.

Thanks for all the comments. On reflection I think I will AS it. The weather is good so I will chance it and see how it goes with the option of combining later. A demaree is not an easy operation and is time consuming so I don’t fancy doing it.

I think the super should have gone above the clearer board with the holes open. The bees think that it is outside the hive and so will go up and clear them out. Below it becomes part of the hive and the fill it. Another option is you put it right at the bottom below the brood box and they...

But of course the beekeeping year really only starts now as they need to get through winter, then count them...

I think for these bees I have a single national is too small. I will have all mine on double brood as soon as I think they need it and will phase into 14x12 as I do frame replacement. It is not too bad lifting one brood box onto another. It is problem when you put a 4th super on it becomes a...

Richardbees They have been on double brood since last year and went through the winter on double brood. I think that if they were in a single brood box they would have swarmed long ago. It is not the same queen as winter as we did an AS in late April.

I have just spotted this thread which has helped a lot. http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=12773 I think I will add another cople of supers and knock back all the cells and see how things develop over the next few weeks. Last year I went on holiday and came back around mid...

We have a large hive which is made up of:- 2 national brood boxes QX Then 4 supers of which 3 are 75% full and one is 20% On inspecting tonight there are a vast amount of bees in all parts of the hive and the brood boxes which have 9 frames each are probably 60-70% brood of which 70% of that...

About 5 or 6 for me so far this year. The worst one was when I was not even inspecting them. Stung on the thumb on Saturday collecting a swarm, my own fault as I squashed it and all that is left of the sting is a small spot.

I am very lucky they are interested, in fact it was Luke, my eldest lad that started the beekeeping thing by asking me could we keep bees and said yes(I was weighing it up anyway). Both are keen biologists and that helps a lot.

Hi Caz I caught a swarm yesterday(http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=12780) and had to knock them into a nuc. I took all the frames out apart from the two nearest the walls and then knocked them out of the skep. Some did go on either side of the box and onto the floor but I did...

Hi Neil The first sting certainly sharpens the mind. The stings I get vary so much; I was stung today on the thumb pad collecting a swarm and now I have hardly any sign. A month ago, on the arm, and my arm swelled up quite large but no pain. A few months previous stung by my eye and I looked...