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  1. Gaz Fella

    Langstroth or National?

    Hmm. I note a Langstroth: "A complete Langstroth beehive in high density polystyrene comprising roof, brood chamber, cambuckle strap and floor with varroa tray and aluminium mesh at a £5.00 discount (almost 10%) from the total price of the items if they were purchased separately... £49.50 " I...
  2. Gaz Fella

    Bee Vital Hiveclean

    Any more news?? Any further experiences on the use, and apparent effectiveness, of HiveClean?? ... and also , whatever became of FGMO fogging? I have not see any published papers on it recently ... and only limited stuff [principally from one worker and his proteges] prior to that.
  3. Gaz Fella

    New hives for today's superbee

    Rose pdf ... interesting management techniques, including: # not using a queen excluder # extracting honey [for sale] from any frame without brood present at that time ... though may have had brood in it in the past # making more space for growing brood nest by splitting the brood nest with a...
  4. Gaz Fella

    Identification

    ok- how about Mustard, for the yellow one. Also on that "green manure" web address I gave you, and quite likely that a "green manure mix" was sown.
  5. Gaz Fella

    Over winetring now?

    "I kind of think there is also about 1/2kg of protein in their stores as well (not nearly as much in sugar stores), so that must be good for them." yes, very definitely "good for them" and probably a great help in resisting nosema, and allowing a good Spring build up. I intend using sugar syrup...
  6. Gaz Fella

    Identification

    surely the bluey one is Phacelia ... a common and easily obtained "green manure": http://www.greenmanure.co.uk/phacelia.htm As a green manure, it is usually cut before flowering - which is a real shame as it is truly excellent for bees!
  7. Gaz Fella

    Poly Langstroth versus Poly National

    bees eating plastic?? Higher density, harder, polystyrene. I run cedar 14x12 (12 this year), a polyhive with an extension piece underneath to make the brood box 14x12, and at a different apiary I use Poly Langstroths [six] ... Swienty version. The Poly hive is ok, though flat-packed. The...
  8. Gaz Fella

    Any one got cutting sheets for national hives

    "Quick question, how many mm do you allow between pieces for cutting?" ... That depends on the thickness of your saw blade!!
  9. Gaz Fella

    Entrance Disks??

    That looks the biz! Next problem is ordering off a Polish website with no knowledge of the language! I think I shall have to find an appropriate third party! Any suggestions? Anyone know of Polish links between any UK dealers and this firm? Well done for tracking this one down, folks. Thanks.
  10. Gaz Fella

    Entrance Disks??

    Photo of the small disk entrance I have and want more of! It is 80mm diameter They really are ideal for nucs. Come in a range of colours , as well.
  11. Gaz Fella

    Entrance Disks??

    No - the ones I want/have are even smaller [by the look of them]. I'll take and post a photo over the next day or so.
  12. Gaz Fella

    Entrance Disks??

    'Fraid not - I have some of the blue Thorne's ones ... too 'uge for my needs ... these are more than twice the diameter i am after
  13. Gaz Fella

    Entrance Disks??

    I have 5 entrance disks, ideal for nuc boxes etc. About 2 1/2 inch diameter, with an oval hole, a QE sized slot, a ventilated hole , as options. Pretty colours. But ... I need some more. These were a souvenir from a trip abroad, and I can't find any listed in "the usual UK dealers". Anybody any...
  14. Gaz Fella

    Apologies To Those 'Oop Norf'

    It depends a bit on what "kit" you have with your 2 National colonies ... and whether the supers have drawn comb or not. If you plan on brood-and-a-half / bottom-supering to overwinter, it really helps to have drawn super comb when you start the autumn feed ... so if you haven't any drawn super...
  15. Gaz Fella

    Half-filled Supers

    Ah So! Fair cop, guv! I thought he meant 10lb-spread-across-many-frames-per-super Rather than 10lb spread across [say] 30 frames[or more], which I didn't think one would be able to quantify anyway .. after all, 3lb per super would be [say] only 2"x3" of capped honey per side of super frame.
  16. Gaz Fella

    Bald Brood

    Baldbrood:: Well, I thought.... I thought current theory is that wholly or partially uncapped brood was part of an investigation process by the workers into perceived oddness within the cell. Somehow the worker detects something amiss [smells change, vibration change??] which leads the worker...
  17. Gaz Fella

    Half-filled Supers

    well, I beg to disagree re "worth the bother". I got 93lbs of honey out of 7 less-than-ideally-filled supers last year, using the method I mentioned, with excellent results on the refractometer. OK - poor for any commercial effort, but better than nothing for the desperate small beekeeper, and a...
  18. Gaz Fella

    Flora.

    Buddleia?? Seems like some variants are structured to allow honeybees to get nectar from, and some suit only the longer tongues [esp of butterflies and moths] This is a rough observation - I haven't yet troibled to study the openness of flower structure of those bishes which bees love and those...
  19. Gaz Fella

    Half-filled Supers

    If you spin "non-ripe" honey and uncap and spin "ripe honey" from the same frame, and you do this to a lot of franes , and there is a lot of "non-ripe" you will end up with a mix which isn't really "honey" ... containing too much water, liable to ferment, and illegal to sell as honey. Try...
  20. Gaz Fella

    Brood and a half question.

    Try double brood? I agree with Polyhive that brood and a half on WBC may well be not enough. And castellated brood frames may well be a pain ... depends a bit on the castellation width as well... wide spacing - suitable for honey super - is too much for brood, and will just encourage brace comb...
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