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I am very sorry, I wish I could take back my rude comment. Sorry Finman. Yet is it such a risk to add frames of brood from another hive?

I find that some members are so sarky, that there is no wonder that new members are scared to death of making mistakes or asking the wrong thing. I am not trying to though my toys out the pram lol but yet I only asked a question

Hi Adam, last September I tried to introduce a new Queen to my colony, as it was a July swarm and the bees killed the queen and made there own. So I now have an 10 frame and 1 blank board frame hive of bees but I only have 4 frames with brood on. So I was hoping to buy 3 or 4 frames of brood...

Hi, I was wondering if any members would be willing to sell me a few frames of brood on standard national brood frames. I was also thinking that if there was a market for selling frames of brood without bees on the frames how much would the going price be? I was thinking £5 - £8 a frame. I look...

There seems to be nuffing on the internet about any confirmed UK sighting of the asian hornet.

WASPINATOR is a product that stops wasps in there tracks but doesn't kill a single wasp! http://goo.gl/H0V9F This might just stop the upset and name calling! Within Thread: http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=9837 It seems some what alarming to me that some members just have to...

That why it seems very strange when you hear of beeks that put wasp traps within feet of there hive, in the hope the wasps will go for the trap instead of the hive. I keep mine well away from the hive so not to invite wasps to have a free meal.

Wouldn't that leave the queen wasp pheromone in your hive? Killing her away from the hive my be better.

Here is a pic of my trap and I use pieces of pear and plum, mixed in sugar syrup. I don't put my wasp trap anywhere near my hive because when the bees defend the hive the wasp flies away and doesn't go into the trap. So I put my traps about 100 meters away from the hive.

It might be me but it seems that once he was challenged, he seemed to of changed his mind about his teaching of swarm control.

I found a few capped cells like that on Friday and there was nuffing in them.

I checked my wasp trap the other day and found about 20 queen wasps and a few worker wasps.

Here in the East Midlands last year we had no April showers and so far this year very little rain. We also have had the hottest March on record this year. In 20 years time spring may no longer exist. 1 out of 4 seasons lost for ever. Winter/Summer/Autumn and no Spring to speak of. I mean Spring...

I don't want to lose my queen I the long grass and if I were to find her in the long grass, to then kill her by mistake while trying to save her.

I can see what you mean but they are my girls. They are family and in the summer months I take no more than a 5 day holiday. This is simply because I love to sit by the hive and watch them come and go. I also have bait hives setup too and the nice people that have let me put bait hives in there...

The wife has found this comment funny. I still go on holiday in the summer months. We just go on 2 to 4 day holiday and a week to 2 week holiday from October onwards, if we have the money for a holiday that is lol New beeks that think they can drop there new found hobby and the bees will be...

Sorry, I'm not sure why I thought Poly Hive was a women.

:iagree: Poly Hive, is trying to help you. She is not trying to upset you. There are a lot of good books out there for new beeks. Making it up as you go a long really isn't going to help you, nor is asking big questions when your understanding of beekeeping is very limited at the moment. Why...

Hi, sorry put a queen excluder on top of the brood box too lol

Hi, you might want to try this setup if you are really worried about your bees swarming or you could put a bait hive 400 meters away from your colony. While making sure it is about 1 meter off the ground. I would recommend that you go to as many of your local associations meetings as you can...