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unknown insect many thanks all, a naked bumble bee:thanks:

hi all does anyone have any idea what this insect is ?. I found it above q-excluder how it got through it have know idea.

park beekeeping Godfrey & Son a very good outfit always helpful they are engineer based

bee-smilliebee-smillie:nature-smiley-013:Due to ill health, I am regretfully downsizing my apiary. I have a number of complete Commercial Hives, which include the solid floor, brood box and frames, super and frames. Crown board, queen excluder and roof. All full of Italian or Buckfast Bees...

Hi All, My veil to suit zip has given up the ghost,anyone know of a good repairers please ?

Hi Freya, if your around SE9 area your more than welcome to assist a couple of beeks !!!

stainless extractor (rust) looks like blueing of the stainless .the welding has been carried out ok but not been clean up ,its not surface rust .use a st/steel wire brush .

stainless extractor (rust) hello BBG, Looking at your photo I would say the fabricator has not pickled the material after welding or polished the surface .it looks very much like coking on the surface bad workmanship ...perhaps you could show a few more photos ???

hi all, is there anybody on the forum who can repairs beesuit veils ( astronaut type ) ? its my spare suit .many thanks

well same happend to me, docs advised NOT to work on hives alone and carry an epipen always just in case ..... keep safe .

Hi all WARNING !!!! have just been notified by the NBU that AFB has been found within 3kms of (LEE) SE12 I have checked my hives today all seems ok

Mis Hi, we have a great bunch of lads down here ( Eltham) they are making a couple of commercial Nucs for me, I supply the materials with a little extra bingo !!!! colin

hello Veg personally I would have it plasma cut at a local steel fabricator workshop ,grinding will cause you dust problems ,jig sawing will be like using a can opener !!!,

broodbound finman, ok you win !!!!!! LOL colin not worthy

broodbound finman Sorry you have got me there a skep !!!.I thought the discussion was about commercial B/B problems.

brood bound hello gang, ive use this method with weak and lazy colonies with Italion queens otherwise they wont move out of the brood box ..

broodbound hi boutbees, I use commercials and found the same thing ,try compressing the frames down to 8 using 2 x double dummy boards,you will find this will force the bees upwards to work the supers this works for me even when demmerring !!!.then before winter feeding remove the double -DBs...

mesh try , F H Brundle ltd .been using them for years for mesh and metal bits

health problem hello Kentwasp, I'm just up the road from you if you !! if you decided to take up beekeeping PM me and I could put you in touch a great friendly club in north kent ..

metal hive stands hello Ian, I'm making a few metal hive stands this year with my welding students . happy new year :sifone: colin