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Congratulations Kaz :cheers2: Really pleased for you :party:

Give it time! As a stock-ordering admin I have to admit to being only too aware, however, just how fast pens apparently disappear into the ether (my office of 25 people went through about 50 pens in 3 weeks!). On the plus side they haven't cut your service......:eek:

Not today really, but late last night hived a swarm I'd just picked up from our BKA swarm collector. I know it's late in the season but just crossing my fingers for this lot! (it's difficult to pick the roof up with crossed fingers, so it's helping with me leaving them alone for a couple of...

I'm new, so try not to break too many of the 'rules' at the moment but assume that will change with experience :) I figure that a lot of them are there to prevent newbies like me behaving like complete idiots :D At the moment, the only thing I really do against conventional wisdom of...

I use it as a proper mist (think slight fog) so they get damp but not soaked and not too much (since you really don't want lots of damp in the hive). With mine it just encourages them to get their heads down and groom each other. With smoke they just have a hissy fit at me (and I've tried...

Ah bless! :rolleyes::Angel_anim::)

There's a site I got directed to with some recipes using essential oils that might be of interest (http://www.beekeepingandbeehives.com/alternative-varroa-control/). From what I understand, teatree oil can be substituted for wintergreen, though I'm not sure of this :confused: Also...

:iagree:

I think that it's just one of those things. I was told about b4b before I found this site, so was already bidding on one there when I found the forum. Had I found this first, chances are I would have bid here. Maybe next time?

I just went back & noticed that myself (before I emailed my husband to ask about more bees :) )

At this rate someone will get a bargain I think (it's not me unfortunately!)

:iagree: and I've only done 10 years so far :banghead:

Back onto Hooper ... again!

Pete, I'll PM a place that my husband & I nearly always buy hardware from. Tend to be cheaper than the usual bunch and we've always had good customer service.

Probably not. However, it looks like if you don't no-one else will! Well done for doing as much as you have though not worthy

Someone who was recommended by a very experienced beek in Solihull :)

Tromped over to Ludlow and picked up a lovely new queen who has now been introduced to the rest of the rabble. Now it's just time for crossed fingers!

Yeah, I thought it might be too good to be true when they went for that price! I've contacted him to say about the problem and am waiting for a response, but if not, as you say, it's not as painful as it could have been. There's got to be something to be grateful for :-) Thanks for all the...

His seller ID is TwentyOne on b4b item #2747.

Got it from b*d4b**s. The seller is a member of a local BKA (not the one I go to). It could be possible that it's a cobbled one. The brood was only on old frames, with the stores on new. (I hadn't even thought of that until you asked.) It wasn't the one we'd originally bid for as he said that...