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If as is sensible to treat for varroa this month, whether it’s Apivar, OA or some other treatment then as said at the outset of this posting many hives still have stores in the super and it’s not ideal to treat with supers on. Can either treat later in Sept or remove the super but if BB still...

Have taken honey off my hives and most hives are still left with a super on as the BB are full of brood with stores in the super. I plan to use apivar strips later this month, placing 2 in each BB. As I’m not taking more honey off is it ok to leave the supers on (I will nadir later on...it works...

‘When needed buckets are melted to double cream consistency’ ... to what temp do you melt?

I put my scum into a feeder, and feed back to the bees

‘To seed or not to seed... that is the question!’ I always seed (10%) after warming concrete rape honey to 35+ then immediately cooling to <14c for a few days, then warming to 35c and jarring. Am I wasting my time seeding?

I have a few hives with ... BB, QE & BB . Most with the bottom BB with brood only a little stores + pollen and in due course I would like them to start taking stores (honey) down from the top BB. I don’t want to nadir the top BB and thinking of putting a cover board on top of the QE with the...

Extracting honey and noticed in a few frames,after de-capping, that honey being stored above already stored pollen. I’m happy extracting, it as the pollen stays in the comb, just wondered if others have seen this as I haven’t previously.

I’ve done as you suggested and united the supers with different hives using newspaper method. Now left with just the BB , so why wait 3 days to shake out?

Thanks really helpful

I have, or rather had a really strong hive with DLQ or I think more likely drone laying worker(s). I have been unable to inspect for 6 weeks due to medical reasons and unable to lift... I can now. All the drone cells were in the brood box below the QE. Hive was a 14x12 with 4 supers. I was...

Would that also work, taking a mated queen out of a nuc (or apedia) and replacing at the same time with a virgin queen ( from my egg incubator)? If so would you cage the new queen to start with?

I agree ... ask for Damien

How do others feedback cappings and honey following extraction, which is from rape and is setingt. A feeder wont work as the honey is set & not liquid enough. I could take the lid off the feeder and place above the cover board with the hole open, but a bit concerned they will all get stuck in...

Ah got it. I’ll do the same. Thanks

Hi Swarm, what did u mean by this? “After that, a series of moves.”. Thanks

I have a demaree that has work well and have queen with brood in both top and bottom BB’s. It’s getting too high and I have removed the demaree board and replaced with a top board, so now both split vertically. Thinking of changing to a horizontal split in the same apiary but presumably all the...

Thanks... I hoped they would.

I have been unable to remove some frames of honey for 5 weeks (hospital op) and many have rape honey set in the comb. Its what I expected to happen and have tried placing them in a warming cabinet at 35c but that didn't work. Am thinking of using them as food stores in the autumn and hopefully...

Its good to get reassurance...and also others do things in different ways, so still learning!!

They all have brood in (& backfilled homey), that’s the reason for the best solution.