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ok so inspected the top BB today .. 8 days after making this up .... was all prepared in the sunny lunchtime (tho cold wind) to whip the qc's into a nuc or 2 ..... get the top off and not a SINGLE qc at all .... there is me counting chickens ....... yours ever confused.

ah good idea inspection board in ... getting a bit cooler this week so might just do that just delighted i found the queen ... must be all your training Dani !! - not too much smoke and using marigolds (using elastic bands to keep the cuffs down) !

Finally did it today at lunch time .... and this is the first time I confidently found the queen and ensured she was in the bottom box ! - previous years have been tragic with shaking bees into the bottom box. @jenkinsbrynmair I left the queen on one frame of brood in teh bottom brood box ...

Yeah this is a nobbled colony that was going great until i put it from a nuc to a full hive - I was pretty careful too ..... well going to give them a chance to raise a new queen this way using this test frame.

Hi so the test cell ... they have created queen cells .... so confirmation then ...which is a shame. So should I give them some fresher eggs or let them build a set and check in 10days and cull/pick the best looing q cell to progress ?

thanks all ... suns out today so might be brave ! but then looking at the forecst it is still cold next week .......gos i hate being a Libran !

Want to expand this year so keen to get on with a demaree on one of my hives that is looking strongest - drones out in the hives but given the cold weather (esp at nights) ..... should I hang back ? I think I waited the other year and blew it as they started with the queen cells ! Yours in...

Dani qq here -if you leave a few nurse bees on it .... what happens to them .... didnt want to do tooooo much shaking so I have a test frame in mine a few stragglers remained (bee brush deep in the garage to my shame)

thanks all .... another rabbit hole no doubt !

looking at doing this and wondered if folks here had done this and got any starter kits/spores to sell ? yours inspired by .... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/17/mushrooms-as-houseplant

i should add this is more for my garden to hide the 'handy bits of builders stuff' i keep at the bottom of the garden :) ...Thanks Ian .. yeah good shout on the site safety netting ... will look at that ...can double it up if need be

Wondered if folks have done any quick covering and screening solutions for areas to make them discrete ..... I have a choice between 'fake UV proof ivy' i.e https://premiernetting.co.uk/catalog/colour-artificial-hedge-privacy-screening-long-p-281.html?osCsid=25c6058bb77041a4d1c4d0ea0575d434...

Terrible problem down here with Box blight tho .... so just worried how long it would last here :-(

forgive my ignorance but we saying 'early in the season' queens ? so for the humble backyard beekeeper we should not rush to start splits ?

TBH - I use this site a lot more ...and maybe I am just looking for excuses for my bad year in 2020 ! Anyway .... I should be wary of splits that start to fail - I think I left nuc's last year too long waiting on a queen to 'get into gear'

bit late to this party ....and just re-read this article http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/queenperformanceproblems.html I guess from my point I am trying to identify things I should try this year as I went backwards last year and lost 3 colonies....... So given I have only two overwintering...

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Fair enough Karol. Can I ask the audience of waspbane users the same question as a workaround ? ....what do hobby keepers with a single apiary with 2-4 hives need for a season ?

@Karol well last year was enough for me and I going to give the waspbane a go - for a single apiary (2-4 hives) ...what is the recommendation - just get one of the bait chambers and one refill to last me from May ? til Oct ? (appreciate it is hard to know how many wasps in any one season...

me too ... can I ask if you were late putting in the waspbanes ? I was going to invest this year