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We moved my hives to a more suitable location however things didn't go quite to plan and one of the hives tried to break through the stuff bunging up the entrance. With the aid of the smoker we got a lot of them back in and continued with the move. However I now have a fair number of displaced...

Hi, I'm thinking of buying an extractor, just a small one, that would take 2 frames.I only have 3 hives. I have looked at the Thornes Bees on a Budget one and noted there's a couple of similar ones on eBay..... I know to stay away from the Chinese metal red legged extractors on eBay (I have...

Little Miss Webmuppet and I have our assessments on Monday. We had a practice run with our mentor the other day and he is happy that we should be ok.

I have been hunting for a nuc box (that takes National frames) with a pitch roof and an eek or a nuc sized super. I can't seem to find one on the internet, only one supplier seems to do a nuc box with a pitch roof but it doesn't have a eke or a super (we need a eek or super to take our...

My daughter and I checked our hive today and we are worried the our queen is failing.....last week we had almost 4frames of brood (I should say that it's a nucleus we were given at the end of April) this week we have 3 frames of brood. We also noticed we have no drones or drone brood. There were...

Please bear with me as I am a beekeeping novice, I only started learning about beekeeping last summer. Whilst looking for another National Hive (I have one hive at the moment and my mentor says I need another hive) on the 'net I kept coming across Candipolline. Has anyone used this and is it...