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Possibly, however not swapping some brood boxes this year has caused me hassles with propolis sticking everything and particularly the runners making sliding frames along a right pain in the rear. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Hi Today, for the first time, I united a strong nuc with a Q- hive using newspaper method (well my dad did, following my strict instructions, and did a good job). Upon completion, there were quite a few flying bees at the original nuc site wondering where their home had gone, so my dad...

Thanks, JBM! Yes, Q- in same location. Sorry, should have made that clear. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

I want to unite a Q- colony with a strong Q+ nuc. The Q- hive has 2xsupers on that have been recently extracted. Was planning doing a newspaper unite. Would appreciate suggestions on how, which way round to order the boxes etc. Many thanks Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Thank for the reply. This is my first OSR year... and don't want to be guilty of leaving it too long. I have a refractometer so will check that too prior to extraction. Sent from my SM-T710 using Tapatalk

Hi Have a number of supers full of, what I believe is, OSR honey. Did a shake test on Friday, and the frames I checked (from the centre of the supers) failed the shake test, so left on the hives. It's been warm and sunny for last two days and OSR is still in flower. Typically, how long would it...

My (smaller) order from a similar date has just arrived. When I enquired they said it could be a few weeks...so guess they just have a large backlog. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Not just you... Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

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That's it! Just not seen it like that before in my very limited experience. Likely to be space as well. I'll check again it a day or so. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Normally if they're just play cups they're empty, and most were, but a couple had a small amount of white jelly in. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Hi Today I checked a strong hive with a couple of supers on. There was small sections of brace comb on the QE with what appeared to be queen cups. A couple of the cups were charged. No queen cells on edges or bottom of any frames as far as I could see. Not seen queen cells on the excluder...

Many thanks All. Just a bit of reassurance is sometimes all that's needed. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

They currently have a full super, and I was guessing that some of that would be used to draw the frames. I just put the 2nd bb above the existing one, and the super above that. Does that make sense? Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Hi. I'm in my third season, running BS Standard nationals and for the first time just made a decision to double brood a colony. Background... last year I obtained a nuc locally which was only my second colony. The bees in this colony seemed much harder working than the previous one I had. After...

Wood brood box. 3 frames brood, a little on 4th, the rest stores. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Hi A week ago I checked a nuc I had overwinter and things were looking good. It was only a brief check as the forecast was to turn cold again. Found BIAS, didn't see the queen but not worried. Today moved nuc to a brood box and again checked for queen but didn't find. A little more worried as...

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Hi I have a Nuc, started in July, that was started from a purchased queen and some bees shaken from another hive. My own fault in that I probably didn't take enough bees initially so it was slow to build up. However, in a 5 frame nuc, I now have 3 good frames of bees with plenty of BIAS. The...

Hi. I have a queenless colony and also nuc with a laying queen that I wish to unite. What is the best way of accomplishing this? Do I transfer the nuc to a broodbox, and then unite with newspaper, placing the queenless colony on top? Or is is best to use a queen cage and introduce the queen...