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Thats obviously a bit of correx not acrylic

Dont worry too much, just sharing not criticising, but.... like this...... You can make them as long or as tall as needed.

yep, homemade. Im toying with the idea of putting a colony into an acrylic dome, so that I can watch them build natural comb. It will need hiving for winter though and I need to work out how to do that!!

made of 15mm birch plywood, offcuts from a pattern makers.

They took a few years to get right....just added wire floors, but they are perfect for what I do

And shorten the right upright:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

They are homemade, and for 6 years the wife has not missed her Tupperware containers that make good contact feeders.

At the start of the season I put the cleaned and waxed frames into strong colonies to draw the comb. I move the frames to the mating hives when drawn and sometimes laid up. Add a mug of bees shaken from brood frames.2 days in the dark with syrup feed, then out into the mating site. I add grafts...

I use 2 folding brood frames in each mating hive. At the end of the season they all go into a brood box

Should be fine if she has room to lay

Not seen many wasps at all round here this year.

or remove all queen cells and put her back.

this swarm needed a brood and 1/2

My bee barometer (observation hive) has drawn and filled two more frames this week, so definitely a nectar flow from the lime. Still no drones though.

Used to work in a school teaching science and technology, the kids used to make them if any acrylic needed bending. Nichrome wire and a car battery makes a simple one.

Put the Z on its side

It is an acrylic sheet heater. Works by putting the sheet over a heated slot. you can then bend to whatever angle you want. Also made menu holders for restaurant tables, book display stands, models etc. Very versatile and easy to use.

I made some by bending clear acrylic sheets 15 x 15cms into a Z shape.

I have quite a few nuc colonies for sale. They were early splits from my main colonies. that have been re-queened with a 2021 marked queen. Open mated 2nd gen Buckfast strain. Very calm bees. Some have been moved to hives, some to 1/2 hives, but all are ready for more space and I have run out of...

Dont see why not, if the QC was sealed when the split was made the ' raising' was already done.