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I had a question on this too. I weighed my cedar 14x12 hives and lowest total weight was 31kg with luggage scales. I weighed an empty hive (floor,14x12 brood box, crown board, roof, frames with foundation) and it came to 16kg. So assuming 4kg for weight of bees and drawn out wax 20kg. So in...

That’s what I did in the end. There’s a few sellers on eBay selling the 3m full face for £64 which is much cheaper than most retail places. Zoro I found was cheapest for the 2off 3m filters and filter retainer.

I noticed the same this year. Very few wasps compared to last year and this year I have twice as many hives.

Thanks.

Thanks. Any suggestions where to get a hole punch ? Beekeeping shop or should I be looking at a hardware store ?

Sounds like you did similar to what I’m proposing and good to hear it was successful. There’s nothing like the anticipation of seeing scout bees at the entrance then suddenly seeing a swarm arrive.

Was working on the basis that for bees to assess the size of the space….drawn out combs would mess that up and make it appear smaller than it was. Watched a lot of YouTube videos and in general the recommendation is to have an empty box rather than fill it with frames and foundation. The 2...

3 weeks from mid march. One of the swarms I caught drew out three frames in a week so hence why I’m thinking I need to set it up so they can draw them all out.

Hi, This year I acquired 2off swarms in 14x12 bs honey bees nuc box I used as a bait hive. 2off different boxes same position at different times of the year. No frames were in the boxes and I basically scurrried out after the swarms arrived to put frames with foundation in. Next year I’m...

Was just watching you tube videos of Oxalic acid treatment and this advert came up on YouTube. Beeamond commercial At first I thought it was a wind up but it looks real if you check out the website Beeamond website With my limited experience of bee keeping it throws up a lot of questions as to...

Not yet. Have you got some ? Cheers

After a few jars of heather honey. I live just south of Derby so can come collect from anyone nearby?

Thanks all.

Any ideas what this is? Came out my log burner. Doesn’t have bright stripes like a European hornet or wasp and much bigger than a honey bee.

Made some inadvertently after I filled a honey bucket with wax cappings with water. A week later the Honey bucket lid blew off across the garage so I knew there was a good fermentation on the go. Filtered and Bottled it in Demi Johns and it’s still bubbling away. Note all I have done is add...

I’ve got 4 hives and noticed a pile of drone pupae last week from 1 hive only. I’ve seen them kick out mature drones last year in the autumn but not drone pupae. Is this due to the sudden change of weather getting colder that they’ve decided it’s not worth rearing drones any more ?

Hi. Withdrawn from sale as ended up combining these with a weaker colony.

Interesting so if it was a supercedure the bees could be hedging there bets to see if the new queen is better than the old one before killing the old queen ?

Sorry not sure I understand as they haven’t swarmed and they still have the same queen and this is the 3rd set of queen cells since the swarm arrived. If they were swarm cells wouldn’t they have swarmed once the queen cells were capped ? Hence my assumption they were supercedure cells. First...

Same marked queen is there from the original swarm. Not spotted any more queens either.