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You seem to have lost the plot. What you should be doing is removing the old queen from the existing hive and introducing the new queen to the new hive after a short delay. And putting the old queen back into the apidea. That way you protect yourself against the non acceptance of the new queen...

I do this with great success. Ignore the comment about flexibility of this for brood and a half as anyone wanting to run brood and a half in my opinion is asking for more work. It is however more of a handicap using this for cut comb as yes you use less wax but you tend to have less flexibility...

You may give the bottom box a frame of stores as well and if you have some a frame of drawn comb would not go amiss. In fact you may even give the bottom box a frame feeder full of light syrup to encourage the drawing of new comb just exclude these frames from any reunification as long as you...

Perform an AS. If you intend to reunite position the new brood box above the old with the entrance pointing in a different direction. Find a loaded and unsealed QC destroy all other QC's go in again in 3 days time and destroy any further QC's they have made. Wait to the Q in the upper box has...

You may add a super but it is highly likely the workers will move some of your syrup up there to give the queen room to lay. That is to say that you will not be able to sell any of the super's contents as honey as it will be adulterated with syrup. Alright for your own use, though

soaking in water seems a good idea for the steamer I not sur how effective it iwould be in the solar extractor. My ideal would be a contraption that they used to have on cleaners buckets you pulled a lever and it compressed the old syle mops riding them of water(wax) and honey residue

Does anyone have an efficient method of wax recovery from brood comb I use a solar extractor, a steam wax extractor and occasionally when the wife isnt looking the oven. At the most I get back 60% of whats there and am left with a what looks like a christmas pudding mix. When its still hot I...

a converter exists to convert a national hive to contain commercial frames a Hamilton converter page 5 of Th**nes catalog. However you want to use national frames in a commercial hive you could put packing peices in each side however you will still get comb built on the bottom of the frames...

Tom I am sure you dont keep chickens in your hives so I must presume you mean paltry not poultry.

He wouldn't be chipper would he.

For those not in the know, we have already had 2 members reporting substantial hive damage from our feathered"friends". Please do examine your hives regularly and take remedial action ie repair hole and protect with something like chicken wire.

Hivemaker I have sent you a Pm I wonder whether you had received it

Any chance of a photo to see what we are talking about?

You will need ventilation to allow a flow of air from bottom to top. Recently built my own slightly bigger takes two brood frames a Q excluder and a super frame. If you truelly wish to use it at shows and the like you need to ensure that it can be clamped to a table and that the opening portion...

It is more likely that the bees are out re-orientating themselves. Past flyers will always return to the old site from flights and then will make their way to the new site. Try moving an entrance from one side of the hive to the other the bees fly back to the old entrance then form an orderly...

Hi the Q usually pipes soon after she has emerged from her cell, it has been assumed that this is to get replies from other queens but like you I have heard it when she is isolated from others. Books often say that they pipe befor they emerge from the cell in my experience this is incorrect...

I agree with poly hive you appear to only have one queen cell and unless they populate any others you appear to have supercedure. Oh to wish that mine followed this form of behaviour.

are they not the potter wasp cells. if they where closer together this would have been my guess. I have found them several times in equipment waiting to be used

I think the suggestion that bee equipment should be vat free is rediculous, on what basis. If womens sanitary supplies bear Vat and these are essentional why the hell should bee equipment be VAT free lets be realistic please and not go off on a complete rant.

the professionals use varoa mesh inside the sailors hat capping peice to prevent the further ingress of bees in the future once they have cleared the colony. As this is a disused chimney there is of course no fire risk to leaving the combe there but in other instances there maybe a continuing...