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Does this forum have rules, does this forum have administration, should members be allowed to respond this way ? so many questions, so few answers.

:iagree::iagree: this is pretty much my experience too.

There are plenty of sensible people keeping "AMM" 'type' bees without resorting to all the nonsense about purity and outdated ideas about them being 'wiped out by IOW disease' and being 'evil' (sad isnt it ?). I'm happy to put you in touch with people, but probably best as a private message if...

If your certain that the queen is still there but you just cant find her you could do a shook swarm, which has the same effect but doesnt require you to find the queen. with sealed queen cells they have probably already swarmed but if there are new eggs you may be in time.

at what point/points do I allow the bees in the Apidea to fly ?

itma I've two on the go, one with bees and queen cell, but three days off emerging (best guess) one with just bees, no cell second day inside, cool dark place in a bush adjacent to the apiary. Set up as described above, bees in bottom, fondant in feeder,spayed with mist on the vent screen. In...

Its my first outing with Apidea so some sensible advice would be appreciated: For succesful use in raising queens from queen cells produced by my own colonies: When using bees and Cells from the same colony how ripe should the cell be for success, or how early after a cell is sealed will it...

I've done this, no problem. The extra drawn frame was somewhere for the queen carry on laying and they drew the 14x12 comb fine with a little encouragement from some 1-1 as there were no supers on when it happened.

Can we have a whole series......

Did a show and tell demo on one hive for the volunteers on my National Trust site, nice quiet bees, no surprises, fascinated audience. Then after lunch had a dozen local association members over to inspect three more colonies, let someone mark 2 queens and performed an artificial swarm to the...

So most of your earlier post was nonsense, why do that ?

Is Finman the only person responding here, I;ve been to a dozen UK apiaries and never seen a 30 box tower, 7 or 8 maybe. Does this relate to UK commercial practice ?

Bears no resemblance to anything I've seen or done in the UK over either bee keeping period that I've "nursed" bees. Is this now common practice with commercials here ?.

Is that then 6 brood boxes full of brood and bees with one queen, working a crop for 4-5 weeks to fill more boxes placed on top, with honey ?.

Can someone translate this as its completely meaningless to me ?

Been doing this for a couple of years, no problems, good to have a formal letter stating you're a BKA member with liability insurance We have 3 beekeepers sharing the space and a letter agreeing to treat at the same time (varoa) and that we will remove any colonies that cause serious problems...

Don't forget to feed the new box with old queen if just foundation/drawn comb.

expired on the 29th.

Mine came in boxes of 90, balance in a smaller box to make up the 500, a box of caps and a sample box. Great courier called 1 hour before delivery, got the pallet to my back door up a steep slope and was unusually cheerful about it all. Now they just need to make the 8oz and 4oz jars half price...