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Nucs are all five frame nucs, and are heavy duty, mesh bottom floored. I use them to overwinter nucs. These four nucs each have four frames brood, and one frame stores.

Change of job means I need to drastically cut the number of colonies I have. I have four 14x12 nucs now surplus to requirements. These are all mid-summer mated 2019 marked queens that have overwintered well and are laying well - each nuc will have four frames of brood. The queens are locally...

Thanks for the warning about supercedure. Will have a good look next weekend then. Once they've laid up their nucs I'll be uniting them with a full hive where the swarmy queen has been retired...

Released two Ged Marshall Buckfast queens from their push in cages in 4 frame nucs. First queens I've ever bought - all my hives were built up from swarms. Leaving me with very swarmy bees, who have all been trying to swarm for the last two months... Time to bring in some new genetics. First...

I tried that last year with a couple of my 14x12 hives. Tried some frames with just wire, no foundation, and some with bamboo skewers vertically and no foundation. The bees drew them all out fine, and although it was fragile to start with the frames were easy enough to handle, even in our...

Collected first swarm of the year, unfortunately it was from one of my hives. Two supers added six days ago, all undrawn frames. They'd drawn them all and filled them in six days, so they were off. Collected them from 40 foot up a lime tree. I'm going to need to get a bigger ladder...

Sounds like a great project John - happy to help. Will email you.

Sending you a PM now!

Hi everyone, new beekeeper here in Salisbury. I did a course at Wiltshire college last year, have joined the local club, got some hands on experience and have been very lucky to find a friend who's an experienced beekeeper to keep an eye on me. Built the hive, just need to get a nuc now! Have...