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I don't think it matters BUT good drawn brood comb is not easily come by and a swarm is the best way of getting good drawn worker comb. Why waste the opportunity IF the bees really are in swarming mode but feed them if there is not a steady flow.

Leave them alone and they'll come home and if they don't better without them. Assuming that they were properly put to bed but it's a bit too late now to do anything about that.

Snelgrove boards are still around as well - I have half a dozen but only use them as crown boards

MasterBK sounds just like my old mentor Len Ross from Manchester 40 years ago. I don't think I've heard of Demareeing since then. Surprising how this debate goes on - we were arguing double versus one and a half then. Most of us then were keeping Italian types and needed the space. A few had...

I have a 200m deep gastronorm pan with a 150mm deep perforated pan inside it. Less than £50 from Nisbets for a good uncapping tray. Just like DulwichGnome's picture

Just ordered a screwfix one - will report progress - I've got lots of old BS brood comb - hope it's not been all eaten by wax moth.

No I used the wrong dictionary - I've been trying to learn this beautiful/lasted language for the past six years and look how far it's got me - don't even know my own produce!!

Thanks for the welcome I've got a couple of demijons of cappings washings bubbling away - will think of you all when the frost is keen. (Beekeepers don't use honey to make mead) I wonder has anyone calculated how big Wales would be if it was flattened out? Jenkinsbrynmair - The Aber is Arth...

Found this forum whilst wandering around. Seems like my kind of space. Bought my first bees 1970 - Taylor's Italians, went double brood national then went Buckfast in MD's. Did pollination moving bees from Manchester to Kent. Retired from a day job 20 years ago to west wales and went back to...