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To hope all 4 make it through the winter, then with a bit of luck I can do any splits as I go along. Hopefully make less mistakes and learn a bit more as I go along. I have also got a small fortune of bits and pieces to prevent any costly purchases mid season. I now have several brood boxes to...

Hi all Hopefully someone can clear a question up, last Monday I noticed 6 hives with the smaller round feeders on. They were national broods with crown board then feeder however instead of surrounding it with a super the roof was balanced on top. So firstly I'd have thought wrong time of...

Hi all Will be after a buckfast nuc this spring if anyone will have one Thanks Tom

Read the labels on the various pots and the sprayer would never leave the shed, wind and rain are the basic. But there are many more things, that spraying windows barely exist, temperature changes, days after planting, time relating to emergence and leaf. As well as needing to know when it'll...

Shouldn't panic to much the osr is struggling at the moment, it's been to dry

Hi all After but of advice I had a pair of hives on a stand in the summer I'd obviously turned the original one to do the split. 3 or 4 days ago I stupidly decided to turn the original one back so they were not flying across a path and it would enable them to have their landing board back. I...

What would you call the right price?

Not a member to be honest I have found them quite rude and unhelpful whenever I have got in touch. I may have a look this afternoon and try and be quick to avoid to much destruction. Another off topic question other hive ran out of supers so was going to use a brood box it'll get me some drawn...

Thanks drex I did put a few handfuls above for them to do that, I didn't get chance to put the QE underneath as I thought they were struggling too much covered in honey, right sticky mess. So like what you've basically said I need to get QE underneath if there is brood if just honey I can...

Hi all Before I have to buy a new one which i'm putting off, is anyone upgrading or selling one? thanks

Afternoon all I acquired a hive consisting of a deep brood and super, knowing nothing else about the internals of the hive other than they are a lot more friendly than my other hive. So I opened it up lots of effort to get the top off, oh no crown board brace/wild comb everywhere. So I pulled...

Sorted now q'c turned out to be a dud and queen just took a while to get mated

Hi all looking for a queen if anyone has a spare. The cell I had in the hive refuses to hatch. Thanks Tom

I'd hive them asap had a swarm go in a bait box 7frame nuc with two frames of drawn Combe and two empty frames they started going in at 14:30 and appeared to be in at 17:00 but between then and 18:00 they disappeared while I was setting a hive up so seems like you have to be quick once they go...

Well we have chaos today just got back planning to squish some and bait box one has a swarm going into it big clump on the front it's a six frame langstroth. The other two hives are extremely busy I have no idea which it came out of. Also a lot of bees checking out a empty langstroth brood box...

Well I'd guess probably not,but you will tell me they have. Mine were in four boxes and as Numerous probably even more across the tops, it was more the amount on the frame faces and hanging underneath that surprised me I was placing aside as I went. I also had eggs present

Thank you all. I never get the idea of this close up, do you mean shut them in? Is this theory so the virgin queen doesn't do a runner because she is effectively the only queen and there will be no more queen cells? Sounds like I need to open it up again (to cold and windy today) and destroy...

Morning all checked hive Monday brood and half found qc's some sealed couldn't find queen but a lot of bees I was sure they hadn't swarmed but you never know perhaps they nipped out early morning. Put it all back together to seek advice. General plan split it, as I'd wanted to do. So yesterday I...

Hi all looking for a nuc or hive ideally buckfasts Thanks

Morning all Well that is very true walrus at the moment they are brood and half one nearly full super so i added another last saturday. my only reason for wanting to split is to increase i only have one hive and wanted another. I also thought if I split then hopefully it would slow any swarming...