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what a lovely painting - great idea !

Me keeping an eye on the bees last Feb ! and yes it only took a 100 goes to make this video https://photos.app.goo.gl/tXwQWkrazhQh9pS29

Dani they are lovely - who is the artist ?

the 2nd cap is always a fiddle with the big heat gloves on ...so know what you mean for spillage I should dig out some more caps ... guess they are only end caps from the plumbers merchants ....

gasvape - the little spoon to measure ... how much do you folks put in ... I have been using two spoons worth .....right or wrong ?

bah ... ok well thanks for that ... i was late taking off supers due to good weather down here but will set a calendar entry for next year and get cracking on this now then to play catch up

Interested in this ... I did a speculative vape the other night (gasvape under the mesh floor thru the gap in the payne poly hive) ... and was wondering about the spacing ... but you think I should repeat the vape 4 times in 20days ... my feeling is doing it around now is helping winter bees...

Might have been discussed before but this was a great show and thought of our Welsh Beekeepers when watching it https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nz2w Available on iplayer for a while more Wales’ first Rastafarian beekeeper Phillip Henry stole the show imho !! Also learned about this...

thanks very much

yes so laying queen and nuc is established - so it was just a simple question of how long to leave them at the temporary out apiary before returning back to my main apiary (1.5km from their current location) - is it 1 day , 1 week or 1 month ?

I have a swarm that was left a few weeks in a nuc about 1.5km away - mid summer so I guess i have to go via an out apiary to return them to my main apiary (have just vaped them) how long do you have to leave them at a distance before they can be returned home ? Can you leave them a few days...

Thanks Karol ... getting that time of the season ... not had any trouble yet and hives strong enough - will make an effort and clear up the windfalls off the trees tho to help the plume reduction.

I got swamped last year so have a waspbane ready to deploy but not seeing many yet in the garden ..and the recommendation is not to deploy too early

Hi Karol/WaspBane users .... So have 4 hives and bought a couple of waspbanes ... i have seen the odd wasp about already in the rest of the garden but not where the hives are but wanted to check in on when is the best time to deploy them ( do I need to deploy both of them) ? Cheers Chris

So caught a swarm the other week and moved them into a nuc 8 days ago for ease of transport and ease of vaping. Then vaped them 5 days ago. Picked them up after sunset last night and as I moved the paynes nuc there was a pile of debris under the box...

I have a bait hive on top of our local mosque that got a swarm yesterday https://photos.app.goo.gl/pDCm2ix2EmfR5wED9 Its made up of foundation less frames and a manky brood frame in a national hive (thanks to the apiarist for the guidance and the tip here to ensure the floor is in the box !)...

So checked the other day and the queen cells are now totally missing .so hoping this means queen has emerged and workers taken down the remnants of the queen cells ... I didnt spend long disturbing them ...and its too early to check for eggs etc ... just was thinking .. should I top this...

The apiarist in his blog suggested that they should be space 500m apart .... so interesting yours are so close and worked !

last year was bad for wasps .. and i tried tunnels and trunking ... but the hives werent strong enough ... I think we had posts to confirm that you can do what you want with entrances but the wasps can get thru tunnels when the hive is depleted

ah good to know ... will keep rolling tho ... I do want to increase so was hoping for some nice supercedure cells ! perhaps in a few weeks I might get lucky and the weather might improve or could I add another super to the sandwich filling next time I inspect to increase the distance ?