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the national is the smallest, i spent about 9 years with nationals and have moved onto 14x 12s bigger brood area for queen laying, more space to store food for winter, i would suggest that i have less swarms with them, national frames are easier to handle, one problem with 14x12's, they are more...

its a waste of another hive, dont bother

same with me

great for soft wood, bet it wont cut hard wood, hes only cutting pine type logs, would like to see him with a piece of beech or oak at that length

when its warm enough and there is a flow on, oil seed rape here. if doing a complete re hive, then place your 14x12 hive above the old national one and feed syrup, your honey supply will suffer, but i prefer 14x12s and didnt have swarms last year.

agree, cos the bees love the warmth when building wax, in my opinion, so putting foundation on top is much more likely to be drawn out with the heat from the hive rising to the top box, than putting new wax alongside the older wax.

my apideas suffered badly from wax moth, hardly any in hives, is tis normal?

done all the best

something with the first name california cant remember the last name, sorry, here in north yorks.

you should be following good practice guides and bin em, use something you can rinse in between each hive inspection, so marigolds or similar, have a bucket of washing soda diluted with water and rinse your hive tool and gloves after each hive inspection. if you get a sting in the glove dip your...

no, i know of someone who started keeping bees in wooden shoe boxes, many years ago but it can still be done today. You dont need all the fancy equipment, make yourself a top bar hive from recycled timber, before bee hives they were kept in straw baskets.

stinging wear surgical gloves or similar, but have with you a bucket of water with washing soda crystals in for 2 reasons, 1, hygiene wash and clean your gloves between each hive inspection, 2ndly if stung, scrape out the sting with hive tool its in your hand, or very close by, wash...

find someone local who will powder coat your items.

no pysch but got to be someone with knowledge who can also off load too, targetted, bastards after all that hard work. anything on the buckets to identify?

just ask amazing where you get

posh eh!

thats cheap, going for about 10k per acre in the north, i would have more than 3 hives on it, suppose your going to fit a wood burner now if you havn't already done so! envious

fed all mine with fondant and to my surprise all surviving so far, pretty pleased.

yes a pumping st but they were puming water into where the bees are to save Lidl supermarket

had to check 3/4 times per day to monitor river levels