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I've found the nest......its payback time

Perfect , so far though They have: A full frame of emerging brood donated from other colony 2/1 syrup Ultrabee patty on top frames I have put the entrance disc on with only half open to allow 2 bee space I have then added that mesh box To the side of that is a short length of garden hose There...

The box arrangement on the front is acting like a kill zone ,the odd one making it down the hose is being confused when it enters the box then clobbered by the bees ,can see them desperately trying to squeeze out the mesh.Guess if I put the disk back on and reduce that entrance too,the traffic...

Their gonna have to be expendable for now!at least until it's up to strength,they have a feeder inside and pollen patty to help .prob what's drawing the wasps however no stores in the comb. Itl have to do and hope I think .it does seem to have the wasps confused and noticed the odd bee heading...

Latest effort with what's at hand, the problem is the entrance is in a recess.thoughts ?

That's a great help thanks , I've got some spare varroa mesh I can cut up and fashion something with some pallet wood today, the other half of problem is the bee's are so placid,wasps cant even get within a ft of my dark bee hive

Last ditch attempt,moved it on top of my strong colony facing another way , hose pipe in entrance and plant pot with lots of holes to try confuse the wasps !

Sweet feeding for sure, take it they dont necessarily bother the hive if they are sweet feeding ?

Using Lawrence from black mountains honey recipe , sugar /Guinness/ heinekin mix

Suppose I could, I'd rather lose the bees than lose the bees and nuc mind, theres alot of thieves around these days. They were locked in for the day yesterday,its pouring rain today, encouragingly whilst I was messing around with the hose yest ,2 or 3 bees flew put but stayed around the hive and...

I have nowhere Thanks for info. They have found the new nuc even though moved it away. I have locked them in the the nuc for the day,added a length of hose pipe into the entrance and stuffed it with grass.Hopefully that might stop the wasps entering.

don’t have one to hand at moment but got some home made ones , think I will order some though.You know how long bees take to chew through a grass bung as above?

Ok , had a check this morning , wasps still hammering it ,so last ditch attempt,closed the nuc up and moved it , cut a length of hose that extends about half way in , stuffed the end with grass.other side of nuc is open on ventilation slots on disc and there is a screened floor. I will place...

The foragers will though , hence why I didnt move the hive to lose all of them ! I will go down the field for a nose this morn see how its settled !

could always chance it , what’s worst that could happen , you lose her? Just pop her in your hand luggage

There are some clowns out there.how did they manage to knock over a brood box with an apple?best get a little camera up

if there’s a market for it …..

they are catching a lot but there’s still so many ! I think I must have killed easily double digit spring queens early this year but the place is still swamped .

Could be , I was hoping doing it now at start of aug would give them time.I kept it in same place so wouldn’t lose a load more bees. There seemed to be say 2/3 frames of nurse bees on dadant frames so they may have a chance .I do have one last trick and that’s taking a frame of brood from my...

Anything you watch with the BBC these days have subliminal messages tailored to their political agenda , I don’t watch the BBC , they don’t get a penny off me in tv license , I’d rather give the dosh to the likes of Amazon for producing good shows like Clarksons farm , roll on season 2!