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Hi All, I am a little confused. F:hairpull:ive found lots of different thicknesses of Nichrome heating wire for my new tip puller, but what size is the right one? 1mm, 1.5mm or thicker. All the tip pullers I've seen I reckon use about 1mm wire diameter? Any pointers please? Thanks in advance...

Little video of overwintering mating nuc I found starved today. Thought I would share. Many are reporting losses and far more aren’t because their too embarrassed! I hold up My hand and say this is entirely my fault ! Collapsed just after a week of being fed more fondant. Nucs and mating Nucs...

So this has been on my mind. In Certain years, when for instance lime trees exude lots of sap and at the same time they support huge numbers of aphids, So we have bees bringing in Nectar from honey dew as well as nectar from the usual flowers. We might say that that year was a good year! what...

Hi All, I've made a video on how i raise my queens here in Brittany. If your stuck one night with insomnia, you know where to come!! https://youtu.be/TW_FJTnhilg

I have a nagging question i cant answer. Does the arrival of queen cells being finished, in a cell finisher, on a strong colony affect the queens behaviour if she cant get in to contact with the cells that are being finished. Is she able to detect their presence (if she cant physically find them...

Hello everyone, if your new to beekeeping, heres a video on using this swarm trapping box. If your looking to expand and have more than a few hives, this is a really useful tool to have around the apiary when its all going bonkers in the silly season!!. i use mine all too often, but, its...

so, i am asking this question as my colleague tells me its becoming popular by some queen and nuc rearers in France. i would be really interested to hear what everyone thinks. to me it has merit. Firstly, you insert a started cell in to a queen less colony, in this case it would be a recently...

Happy Birthday Peter Little. Thanks for all you work on the Forum!! have a great Day!!! :cheers2:

Hi all. Anyone have much experience of actually attaching the tiny marker id tags to queens thorax's? I have no experience with this and always used to wait until the queen was mated, however, since I've been using the incubator, its soo much easier to mark them before they go off and mate...

Interested in anyones experiences and results with this process. I am currently painting a load of hives up and wonder if this is really something i should be looking to move to for the future. Theres is a really good info sheet on this i was sent from an australian beekeeper its ...

Hi everyone. I am over in Shropshire for this week. Hoping to pick up some fondant. All the bakeries I have tried don't use it. Can anyone out there point me in the right direction!! Can't afford French prices. Thought I would profit from being away with a pretty empty car!! Can anyone help! I...

Cant find an answer to this thats bugging me. If you treat early morning or late evening when there not all at home and some are still flying, will those that might be starting to foraging or those on their last flights of the day, in reality, come in to contact with as much vaporised oxalic...

Hello, has anyone seen or heard of where one can get hold of these vaporisers. http://www.gurlearicilik.com/urunler/mg-15-oksalik-asit-buharlastirma-aparati/16/ Any ratings. What I like about them is their very portable, but also running on gas or butane you can use a small canister of...

Delightful swarm arrived at one of my traps that i have some 200 meters from one of my apiaries. Just luck i was passing at the same time. Ive never actually had the good fortune to see one arrive, seen and caught lots in trees etc, seen them issue from my hives, but never actually come to a...

So i wanted to see if anybody else either does this, or has heard of this. My college who is big in the French queen rearing group ANERCEA, says i should be putting a frame of open brood next to the inserted larvae graft. He says it brings the nurse bees of the exact age to very close proximity...

Would a treatment of Vaporised Oxalic Acid have any effect on a cell builders, if administered just before either making it queen less , or on the morning before inserting the graft. I am keen to have better control of my numbers this year. Last year i had 2 queens born with DWF. Would this...

Mike just uploaded this one . Quite astonishing! http://youtu.be/PbOGFxfjL44 Something to aspire to!!

Hachi sent me a pm, asking if i knew much about this ancient art and i thought it would make a great thread!! I have tried it myself but its not easy and you really need this neat little box. Has anyone tried it before?. Its very cool way of finding a wild or feral colony...

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https://beeinformed.org/2016/03/08/why-did-my-honey-bees-die/ I found this a very interesting and nicely written article. Helpful and not condescending to beekeepers.