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Why would you use a heat gun when it's not needed? Taking cappings off frames is so easy. I can take cappings off with a normal carving knife. Just practice your losing nothing

Where do I start I'm pushing my hives to the limit this year. Can I have those supers you don't need them 😂

I agree nothing like a piss up after extraction. I'll swap you two jars of honey for a JDs

Yep but wh Leave it until you've had three days of weather above 14c two weeks after emerged without rain then maybe you'll have a mated queen but check seven days after that to see eggs. But still you could have a queen or no. I've had queens start laying nearly two month after emergence. No...

Feed them put your stores at the hive walls. Feed 1/1 syrup to get the queen laying. Slip a frame in the middle of the brood when you see a frame hatching for them to draw. If they have no cells to lay eggs in spin the frames that have stores and feed it back. Put the frames you spin in the...

If you want to know if you have a queen pollen isn't much of an indicator. I have people all the time point it out while I have hives requeening and I disregard it. More of an indication is the overall tempriment of the hive. That's a huge amount of factors. Are there lots of polished cells mid...

The only thing I hate about honey extraction is honey is sticky and I hate sticky. I have plenty of towels and water. I'm a clean freak when I do my honey, nothing I use can touch something unsterile. If it does even for a second it gets cleaned. I probably wash my hands 20 times while extracting.

Don't have time to wash it regular but you reminded me so it's in the wash now for first time this season. I'll have to start throwing it in the wash basket for the wife to do 😂

I've moved two with two national broods both boxes almost full of emerging and capped brood that managed a full brood box of honey I just took off, one almost got two broods of honey one that I've left on so they can top it up. I'm going to move any frames with eggs to the outside and all the...

I don't use bee escapes I open the hives smoke them down brush the rest off then transfer the frames to an empty super with a lid on the floor and a lid on the top. My mate lifts the lid and I put them in. An electric knife works a treat and what that doesn't get an uncapping fork gets. I use...

Your best bet is to put a swarm lure or a few swarm lures with a few drawn frames in them next year. You won't get them out of the tree until they swarm, and it's likely they will eventually die out over time but before then they may cast a few swarms you can have

Hi all I've just secured a site on the outskirts of the heather and was wondering how many hives to start with. It's my first time trying out a heather site so looking for a few pointers. The land is within 100 yards of a nice patch that leads up onto the moors. It's patchy but heather is as far...

Polly nucs are better to overwinter stacked up than a wood national but then I've got bees in wooden national hives to survive winter with just five frames of bees that ended up with just two frames by spring. Feeding fondant helps

Took some hives within a mile of heather a few hours later they were piling in dark yellow pollen. Fingers crossed

Extract it and feed it back in a feeder if possible, if it won't spin out leave it on top and take the excluder off so they can mix with pollen

I don't remove the trays and don't do counts. I treat for mites all at the same time and every hive gets a dose. Lift the hives off to clean and replace the boards. I leave them on to cut down on harsh conditions in the winter. I find leaving them on gives the ventilation but it's not too harsh...

Checked all my hives and went to view a new location on the heather, sorted the strongest out to go on the moors on a test site for heather. Went back and locked up some hives to take tomorrow from three sites. Started at 9 this morning just got in and I'm knackard. Back to it tomorrow

Some people don't bother with it or letting anyone even know they have bees

They are fine the bees know the tempriture of the hive and when tempritures drop the bees respond. Check at dusk you'll have plenty. Your probably a bit low on nurse bees. Make sure your brood nest isn't honey bound if it is spin some frames out and put them back in the middle

If honey bees were competing to an extent to endanger other bees a surplus of honey in the beekeepers hives simply wouldn't be possible now would it?