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    Concerns on appearance

    Hi, i’ve removed a feral colony from inside a building and came across this drone brood. At first nothing untoward caught my eye as i have several things ongoing whilst removing and framing comb. It wasn’t until home going through my images i noticed this appearance. This comb was left of of the...
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    Open Air colonies

    Both these 2 open air colonies were within 2 miles of each other 2 months apart. Your thoughts, as this is only my third experience with these.
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    Bees in a shed side

    1 of the easy removals i've done.
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    Eggs

    I see eggs
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    Watch out, there's bees about.

    Phrase this....
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    Wasps and Bees

    Here you clearly see a redundant wasp nest next to an active colony. I would suggest the wasps robbed out the weak colony last year then naturally expired, leaving empty comb for a recent swarm to move in. As ever, unique and amazing.
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    Feral colonies

    Seem to be a regular occurance
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    Easy swarm

    An easy collection. The neighbour HAD bees.
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    Removals

    Having done over 100 removals from various voids, this has to be 1 of the strangest. The client insisted they had only just arrived.
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    Roof insulation

    If insulating the roofs on hives helps colonies reserve crucial heat over winter, why not simply replace wooden roofs with poly roofs over the cold spell ? Thanks,
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    Badgers

    Has many folk had big issues with badgers and hives ? I've just secured a cracking place at a local farm to me, the farmer would like help with his Rapeseed, nearest habitable home is just under a mile in any direction. However there is an historic, well used badger set 400m from the farm...
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    Vaporiser & TBH

    This is my second season and in July I placed a collected swarm into a new TBH purchased from the supplier on the east coast, this TBH has the entrance to the left hand side with an OMF in the centre. The bees were left undisturbed with only a peek now and again to observe their growth and to...
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    Freehold property

    Called to bees a few months ago, Tree bees moved into a birdbox. Simple job by taking the bees and the box away completely. Relocated on a friends garden, 3 months on the bumbles have expired, a cast of honeys move in... Fantastic...
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    New swarm in topbar after 3weeks.

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    Chimney Jobs

    Word of mouth gets around when a job is done correctly. Client has had bees since last year and now decides they have to go. https://youtu.be/VLPL6DGe6cA As the client was on hols and wasn't around to see my handy work, I went back with a Drone to show him how I keep other bees entering this...
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    Something new

    Just like Pest Control, theres always something new to learn about bees. I always thought that bees preferred a void fit for purpose. Called to a new swarm that had moved into a pub roof yesterday, lanlord says they are even in bedroom.. so after a survey of the massive loft space i found...
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    Swarm and larvae

    Shook a swarm into a basket last night from out of a bush, emptied out onto sheet in front of nuk to look for queen.... and spotted 2 white larvae ....??? Any comments ..? thanks.
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    Late evening swarm

    Just took a call for a swarm local to me, cut the bush branch, dropped them in basket, placed a few TBars on... went back 60 mins later to see them all tucked up in bed... Love this time of the year...
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    New toy

    Just bought 1 of these to aid me in my role, should be handy to locate colonies in shed walls, behind plaster board etc...
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    First swarms for ABM Pest Control

    Here in sunny Mansfield, my 1st call came in with a cast up a tree 6m, sheet layed below with a bait hived with 7 frames, rope threw up and over and with a good shake, down they came. The phone rang again whilst looking for the queen, with another swarm in the next village only this time in a...
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