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Bee keeping Tuition Ever wondered 'Just what goes on in a hive?' If you have got your bees within the last year, or yet to get your colony, qualified tutors are holding a Tuition Day to teach fundamental bee care and offer bee keeping advice. The course covers the following topics:- Bee biology...

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Maybe a little more information would be helpful from the poster.

Seems to be working fine for me.

Ya but where's the fun in that!!

Is that local auctions or fleabay?

The sale items were actually on the site on Christmas eve. Prices of polyhives same as in October sale. Thought I would hold off to see if there were cheaper in Christmas sale but no luck. Still needed some nucs so ordered them anyway.

100% Correct.

Ta John nice set up.

Ingenious. What is the heat source John?

Surely all days are 24 hrs. :spy::sorry:

:yeahthat: :yeahthat: I started with one of these. To be fair they did take off into a large thriving colony.

Right Ta.

Must be getting confused. Why bother cutting the lugs off then?

If its a pains poly you can use an eke on the hive floor and them the super to get around the notches on the floor. Another simple idea from somebody (ITMA I think) on the forum.

There was a nice idea on a recent thread to deal with the situation where the bees are lower down in double brood hive. Use a tube attached to the syringe. Could do the same here so that the hive does not need to be disturbed by removing the super.

The main thing that makes me hesitate is the unknown of what the queens will mate with as I live in a semi urban setting with goodness knows how many hives with mating area. Will I end up breeding monsters?

:yeahthat: Been there myself.

Would like to buy book that people refer to as 'according to Brother Adam'. There appears to be 3 books: Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey Breeding the honeybee In search of the best strain of honeybee Are people referring to one particular book or to all three.

Fair enough. Not so involved with my association mainly due to time commitments elsewhere. Good luck with it.