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I've heard of people collecting swarms in cardboard boxes; would a plastic bucket (well scratched on the inside) work?

Putting together a couple of Snelgrove boards, based on plans from the late great Dave Cushman's website. Has anyone here built their own, and if so, how did you attach the entrance gates? I've just tried a single screw through both gates and the board, but when I open the gates they wind...

How useful do you reckon it is to cut slots in the longer sides? (Assuming you adjust the dimensions of the shorter sides to suit) I made some ply boxes last year without the slots and they seem to be pretty solid; could be useful for people who don't have a decent router table, assuming they...

Thanks for all the advice, guys! Looks like it's sort-of feasible with luck, cooperative bees and lots of early-season feeding (as peterbees surmised, I have little drawn comb). Bees will have all Winter to read the plan; unfortunately the only thing I can count on them to do is disregard it...

Please help me plan my strategy for next season... I currently have a single colony, raised from a nuc over the Summer. I made a couple of mistakes along the way, but it's now in fairly good shape; in mid-Oct there were probably around 5-6 BS standard frames of brood, another 4-5 of stores plus...

Installed a 5-frame nuc on Sunday, and have been monitoring the varroa drop. It's currently 2 per day, but that's based on a sample of 2 days, which isn't statistically that useful; I'll have a better figure by the end of the week. Anyone have a view on what constitutes a "significant" drop for...

Thanks, that's what I was hoping to hear :-) If I do it, existing queen will go into a nuc; definitely no plans do dispatch her...

I have a nuc of Carnolians arriving shortly (I hope). I ordered these some time ago, and made the choice partly through ignorance and partly because they were actually available! There's a lot of discussion on forums regarding the advantages of keeping more "local" bees; I'm keeping an open...