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  1. pete darbyshire

    How do I separate a double brood with chimneying brood comb?

    I have found that turning the 1/2 brood 90° over winter reduces the occurrence of isolation starvation...
  2. pete darbyshire

    Heather honey 2022?

    I dont think you can beat a hydraulic fruit press for heather honey
  3. pete darbyshire

    Heather flow? How to tell?

    it looks like this!!
  4. pete darbyshire

    Heather flow? How to tell?

    Walk amongst the heather and breath it in. If your hives smell the same as that, its heather honey. Plus the may be bringing in grey pollen.
  5. pete darbyshire

    Heather honey 2022?

    Heather here is amazing. One super per hive filled in a week.
  6. pete darbyshire

    Starting a one frame nuc. Too late?

    Personally I think it's a bonkers idea - but what have you got to lose? BOTH OF THEM??
  7. pete darbyshire

    Full brood box..

    If you are lucky the queen will find a new home, and the hive will rear a less fecund sucessor.
  8. pete darbyshire

    Full brood box..

    Option three, ignore all the advice to give the queen more space and just get a crappy queen!!
  9. pete darbyshire

    angry ish colony

    They are bringing in pollen, but no nectar.
  10. pete darbyshire

    angry ish colony

    Totally agree, mine are the same, especially the swarms and splits. They are all getting syrup till the BlackBerry flowers. Could have inspected in a tshirt last week....not this though
  11. pete darbyshire

    Swarm witnessed

    I didn't realise a swarm was "the mating process"....prime swarm, old queen?
  12. pete darbyshire

    Bait hive plans

    My bait hives vary from " designed " ply boxes to polystyrene salad boxes.
  13. pete darbyshire

    Attracting swarms - what are the odds?

    My lay lines depend which way the bed faces😴😴
  14. pete darbyshire

    In need of a cunning plan

    I personally don't like castellations, I like to be able to slide blocks of frames along. For example if I take out the outers I slide 5 to the front and5 to the back, putting clean frames into the middle
  15. pete darbyshire

    In need of a cunning plan

    I presume they are hoffman frames ,and you have 12 in. I use a THIN hive tool down the hoffman wedges on a centre frame to break the propolis seal, before levering out with a j tool. Try 11 frames and a dummy board. When really stuck, I have put a small lengths of 3 x 2" wood under the ends of...
  16. pete darbyshire

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    SUCCESS SWMBO gets me to paint this every year, but won't allow bees to be put in it. I've persuaded her to let me put lemon grass in it because "it will keep the wasps away"😁😁 I may of course regret this later
  17. pete darbyshire

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Update from last year.post 32,127....they do love them, three hives each with bees on 25 frames and brood on 18-20 frames. Waiting for queen cells then I can do some splits. They have breeder queens so not wanting a honey crop from them.
  18. pete darbyshire

    Removing dead winter bees

    Sorry. Should have been omf, but I was thinking omg when I read post 7 😖😖
  19. pete darbyshire

    Removing dead winter bees

    Large numbers? I am saying a few hundred bees in a rammed 6 frame nuc. There is no issue with the bees, just an observation for anyone trying high entrances. I've never looked into a wild colony....but assume this happens. I know dead bees drop into the fireplace overwinter from a chimney...
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