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In fact the frames are both 1 1/16th"wide see Th**** catalogue [ages 20 and 21 There is also the fact that the dadant hive is also wider and holds an additional frame. The box's are therefore not interchangeable neither are the super frames that are deaper on the dadant.

No brood add acarine to the other two

Beleive it or not their website also appears to be down

some farmer wifes are perverse Year ago I approached a local farm and ended up talking to the farm manager he would have been more than willing to accomadate me BUT the farmers wife did note like bees and would not allow any on any of their FIVE farms. Now get this she only lived on one of the...

So why not pressure wash the mesh or even use a blow torch and then brush it is highly likely that most of whar is bunging up the mesh is propalis.

Anybody any idea whats going on here ther web site is not found anymore and the DNS server does not recognise their existence. I need som parts for Paradise bee boxs and they are the UK representitives or should I say were the UK agents.

I have recently acquired some of these bee boxs in langstroth format. They are slightly different in that they are bottm bee space. This results in little or no room on top of the box. They are of course poly hives and fit together well and tightly, this exarcerbates my problem as I wish to...

My inclination would be to dust of the existing frames install some fresh foundation and get an overwintered nucleus immediately. That way you have a good chance of performing a two or threefold split by JUne and you will then have three hives running and the possibility of some honey as well. I...

one further option might be to move some of the existing laid frames so that both boxes have frames with laid brood in them. If doing so ensure that the frames with brood in them are above and below each other placing the undrawn foundation to the outside of these. If this is going to be a queen...

Yes backup top again, preferrably with some drawn comb, find the queen if possible put her above with a q/excluder between. Wait three weeks ie all the brood will have hatched and you can remove the old brood box. If there are stores present you can introduce a couple of supers above the new...

I have on occasion had the same problem if any of the previously offered solutions are impractical here is another solution. I use a nuke box with an openmesh floor I place this on a slight cant place the inspection board in not all the wayleaving a slight gap raise the whole system slightly so...

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Try to stimulate her into laying by putting rapid feeder on with 1 part sugar to 2parts water presupposes that they have some pllen present. If its cold up there its a lot of space for a small ammount of bees to keep warm, consider perhaps removin the brood box or some of the outer frames and...

One presumes that you are undertaking a Bailey exchange the purpose of which is to provide with the Queen with fresh clean wax in which to lay. This means that you will have fresh wax together with the queen in one box I would recommend the bottom box myself whilst in the other you are going to...

Second is the number of bees in a hive, is this a guess by weight or is there an equation that is done? The number bees in a hive will depend on a great number of things, the time of the season, the type of bee you have, the type of hive you have, the weather, the proximity of forage and the...

There are a few areas in the UK where you might expect to get mono floral honey but not many for the most part people who live in semi rural or suburban localities will have multifloral honeys. The exceptions that exist in the UK are either in farming areas which might be singularily cropped...

Yes I went into my colonies this afternoon and bar two they are well advanced some had drones wandering across the frames and two had Qcells with lavi and royal jelly. Some hives had as many as 9 frames of brood and when you consider that these are Commercials thats a considerable number of bees...

I did say arrived so not an existing colony and went under the roof. from where it was impossible to extract them. They were then treated and the means by which they gained entry was sealed, done by a true professional who does not destroy bees if he can possibly avoid it.

Had my first swarm of the year reported yesterday in Aston Clinton , Bucks. Unfortunately they arrived and got in under a flat roof and had to be destroyed. So beekeepers beware its not to early.

A good few of the items you will see in uk suppliers M'more, Ts N,tional and others have been sourceed from China in the first instance I can instance Queen cages in particular. I have also bought beekeeping items directly form China via Ebay grafting tools cups for cup kits etc. and have had no...