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Well in which case bee base is hopeless then anyway , Correct answer , anything Elon Musk gets involved in , I.e crypto, you know it's a scam 😂

I'm telling you guys your all playing with fire , yes of course try your best to keep your bees inspected for AFB and EFB,but if you found some wouldnt it be more beneficial just to go see your neighbouring keeper and inform them over a cuppa , theres no doubt you all know each other in the...

I'm sceptical of anyone or any institution that wants to have an element of control over you . There is too much data collection these days , all used by multiple parties.Once you have shared your info there is no going back.

Ah makes sense now , cheers , yep will experiment with running an unlimited brood nest come spring , I believe finman does something similar, slipping the queen excluder in around July, or at least I'm sure he mentioned it somewhere!

Sorry , I dont understand what you mean ?

Manuka ,then mark the honey up a million percent .

Thank you for the info, they only have 2 frames to draw out in the brood box , rest is all drawn frame , the super is partially drawn too , I've put a feeder on top of that with 1/1 syrup.It was a decent size swarm ,the photo at start of thread only showed half of what was there ,the other half...

I think the smell of the honey drew them in greater numbers to it ,but noticed alot of them having their fill then going Inside to look around.Anyway reset the trap to see as I'm sure there was two colonies competing for it, lots of fighting and dragging each other around before the swarm...

Nope ,I'm not experienced enough to know tbh, I've heard carniolans are swarmy. There wasnt a marked queen with them I could see but will have an inspection in a week or so when wx better and they are settled.

No idea ,hopefully they wont be as nasty , although just requeenwd the buckfast hive so time will tell!Hope you catch a swarm in your traps , weather has been so odd ,humid thundery weather ! I has some old brood comb (1 frame sawn in half and screwed to a plank) ,some lemongrass , but what...

Ha nah ,interesting to see how they are once they settle down!

Yeah, of course, I'm very new to it all too , I'm assuming they are some sort of black bee / local type! Mine seemed darker than that again.

Palace 😂 think they might be black bees ,super dark compared to my buckfast

That's them in their new home with a super and a feed

Shook them straight into a proper box with frames, that box just had a half cut frame in it and some lemongrass oil

well that worked, only finished it today !

Made a swarm trap out of an old pallet, just need some sheet metal for the roof

Made a split on the poly hives , new queen put in.Ordered some stuff on the bee equipment sale and painted these two cornish colours !

That's what I'm thinking , I've bought a zinc langstroth full size one now and some tin snips.Going to cut it to the internal wall measurements as placing it between boxes is not ideal.

Aye I've looked at them , maybe buy a langstroth one and cut it down.If that's a no go though would 4.5mm be ok?