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Tried boiling today at three different times 5 10 and 15 minutes and can only get heat up to 114 c almost soft ball whatever that is. Anyway its all still like porridge mess everywhere ,wife going mad with drips allover the floor and wasps homing in. Had to shut our two doxies in front room to...

Can anyone tell me where im going wrong. I have tried using the recipie off the cushman site ,but it always turns out watery and i cant do owt with it. I am only using sugar and water,nothing more and getting the correct temp as stated and boiling for 5 mins. I know someone will say ,just buy it...

Thank you ,also a lot of young oak trees several fields of wheat corn and barley along with the field beans and rye grass. Not sure if any of theese would be beneficial either.

Had a walk round the surounding fields yesterday and as my apiary is surrounded by trees saw lots of theese .As im new to bees and flowers can anyone please identify what they are and if my bees will benefit from them. Thank you

Ok ill just bide my time for now and see if i can get anymore info thank you

This being my first full year i am slowly building up equipment and have made up a few UE floors from the desighn that mr jenkins posted.But i now have a few maismore poly national mesh floors not being used. Has anyone ever modified one to UE. Sorry if this is a silly question but i thought id...

Thanks thats reasuring, they are in a paynes nuc that i converted to 8 frames last year and as it was my first winter i was concerned about getting them through , so with my very limited knowledge i glued a piece of plywood over the mesh floor. I will give em some feed tomorrow as they are on...

Today one of my hives swarmed.Ill not go into all the details but anyway i saw them and boxed em up. Im a bit stuck for room so all i could think of was to place the paynes nuc in between my other hives and due to it being a home made solid floor with todays temperature i just opened up the...

Sorry should have said that the swarm is now in a national brood box so if i unite it would be creating a hive with three brood boxes.If it makes any difference.

I am in the same situation as BEECONFUSED Have a double brood inspected today and no sighn of eggs or lava but on the face of several frames emergency cells.Well i think they are with my very limited knowledge. around a dozen in total ,some almost capped and a few capped.I did a split from this...

Thank you ,the hives are all OMF so just have to block entrance night before and i will as you sugest use travel screens on the nucs.Im in the middle of five fields of beans and several fields of wheat/barley so im trying to plan ahead for whatever other spraying may be done in future.

Presently i have 4 hives and several nucs in the middle of several fields of field beans.As a newbie im not entirly sure of the variety .But today i was talking to the farmer whose fields they are and he advised me that in next few weeks it may be that they will have to spray the beans with...

I was only 20 days out then another newbie mistake LOL

Not 100% but i think it was 6 th

Thanks Dani,i should have mentioned i had already read that bit but im confused .Ive been all through the search option on here and elsewhere and i see that a lot of extractors will also take extra frames with a bit of adapting ,Just thought maybee someone on here had the same dilema.

Sorry newbie mistake

https://www.easibee.co.uk/product/honey-extractor-manual-6-frame-stainless-steel-radial-beekeeping-easibee-380/ this was the link i should have posted

Sorry to drag this extractor post on https://www.ebay.co.uk/c/4019079429 Has anyone used one of theese and if so will it take national deeps and supers .Thanks

Thanks again for comments.

Thanks for all the comments all very helpfull .Its looking like i may go for the maismore at least they are on the other end of the phone if owt goes wrong.The electric ones look very good but expensive for m my budget.Anyway if my bees keep swarming like they are doing i wont need an extractor...