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If you are still worried, take some HD photos of the areas of concern (including photos of 'infected' larvae pulled out of their cells) and send them to the Regional Bee Inspector for your area. Just had a BI round to check for suspected EFB and they are very busy at the moment.

Oooh that's not very Beeingfriendly! I have invariably found Finman and Oliver90O's advice and comments to be valuable and sensible, yours on the other hand....... not always. Lighten up.

Beefriendly. You are a politician and I claim my £5! You state: 1. "Nowhere have I stated that inspections MUST be done at 6-day intervals"....except in your posst 29, 34,37 and 43 which all refer to 6 day inspections and 7-day inspections being FAR too late. 2. "If you cannot understand...

JBM. You misunderstand the gist of my posts. The key word in my last post is "unexpected". Regular 7-day inspections would usually give one some idea that swarming was imminent, and other measures are necessary pdq. My beef with Beefriendly is his/her assertion that 7-days is FAR too long...

Errrr. If you miss any occupied queen cup (egg or larva) on your 6-day inspections you may well lose a swarm. So your point is? 3-day inspections for the hard of seeing! If you are that worried just remove all the queen cups. I have issue with your assertion that "If you think about it an...

Why do I need to know the age of the egg in the queen cup? If I inspect every 8-9 days (taking down any queen cups with eggs or larvae as necessary) I should never get an unexpected sealed queen cell.

Hang on! When I inspect for swarm prevention I inspect any queen cups for larvae AND eggs. This gives me the ability to inspect at a maximum of 8 or 9 days intervals (2-3 day as eggs, 6 days as uncalled larva). I have never before heard anyone mention 6-day inspections. :hairpull:

I read your post and thought you either have a very poorly insulated water cylinder in your airing cupboard or were having a larf Hivemaker! But my searches on t'internet brought up this research from Brazil, which makes interesting reading: http://www.scielo.br/pdf/cagro/v36n2/09.pdf EU...

How does plastic foundation stand up to being put in solar wax melters?

I have noticed hardly any drone comb or drones in my 3 hives this year. Has anyone else experienced this. Can I read anything into it? 2 of my hives were formed from a split and the third from a "shook swarm" in May. There has been plenty of activity all summer, but only the shooked hive...

Maybe a more informative set of comparative satellite pictures would be to show July 2017 and July 2018 shots. Everything is green in May, but that doesnt sell newspapers!

Redwood and Danbee- I agree, you speak with some sense. The original thread referred to a 38 degree motion which had 2 parts. The second part of the motion (closing tax loopholes) is clearly sensible and is, and should be the aim of most sensible governments, but can be subject to the law of...

A quick look at the Weald Farm website would suggest that attention to detail does not appear to feature strongly in their business ethos. o90o pointed out some anomalies in their pricing on another thread, but I couldnt work out what his "WPF" referred to at the time. Good luck to all...

Back on thread, in response to the original question: I bought a 14 x 12 brood box from FP earlier this year. When it arrived I was disappointed at the quality of the ply - it appeared to be no better than shuttering ply, with gaps along the edges and variations in ply thickness where layers...

I use grass cutting from a rotary mower. I try to use minimal smoke, and only smoke lightly, to keep bees out of the way when checking frames. Ian Homer gave a talk at our local BKA recently and recommended pony food -grass 'nuts' - the ones that contain only compressed grass, as a smoker...

how do you change your spacing? Can I ask those experienced beeks how they go about changing their frame spacings? I start on 10 frame castellated spacers but need to reduce this, once the frames are drawn out, to 8 frame spacing for cut comb and to optimise yield per frame prior to...

RAB I was given 3 Langstroth Jumbo hives by a retiring beekeeper; sold 2 and decided to give the remaining Langstroth a try this year. So far, in my 9 months of beekeeping I have acquired 2 WBC, 2 Nats, 2 14 x 12 Nats and these Jumbo Langstroths, despite reading about the importance of...

Thanks RAB These are brand new frames that I have made up, and my first time with Langstroths. So I will keep my fingers crossed that the bees strengthen the attachment of the foundation to the frame. I am rather surprised (or maybe not) that there is such a basic difference between UK frames...

Why no grooves in Langstroth side-bars? Can anyone explain why there are no grooves in Langstroth/Dadant side-bars (purchased from Thornes), whereas all other types of frames have grooved side bars to supprt the foundation? Having made up my first few Langstroth Jumbo Brood frames, the lack of...