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+2. You can make many criticisms of the inspection, his technique etc, but to say they are not that bad is pretty stupid in itself. Bearing in mind that on home shot video bees are barely visible and it never gives the full impression of how noisy/defensive/aggressive they actually are. I also...

Howletts Honey Bees occasionally sell Nucs so may have something if you PM them via their Facebook or Instagram sites

Cheers-have you got a link? I can’t see anything on their website in the treatments section or via a search, but I’m only on a mobile so it may not be showing everything.

Has anyone actually spotted any MAQS for sale? I’ve been looking for some for a while for late summer/Autumn treatment and can’t find it in stock. Maybe COVID related?

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Thanks, looks like there’s some good stuff there and I’ll probably be able to follow the references! The reason I asked is I was doing some local history research and found a field name called Honey Pins (pens) and this name was referenced all the way back to the 13th century. This has really...

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Does anyone have any good suggestions for books, articles etc on historical beekeeping in the U.K. pre the 19th century? How, where, who by, etc just the fairly basic stuff but more detail than the standard ‘We know bees have been kept for hundreds of years. In the 19th century...’ Is there...

Not just commonly used, the use of the word has changed from its original meaning of reduction by a 10th to its present use of almost total reduction/wipe out etc. You can check - It’s in the OED, Cambridge Dictionary, and I’d imagine any of the other various online dictionaries of your choice...

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Hi Beepcelar I’ve had a look at your website and first I want to say it looks good, especially for an early version (0.0.4 according to website). The first and most major thing is that there does not appear to be anyway to add inspections (and no references to it being forthcoming). Am I...

Bill. As someone who is criticising other for their lack of technical prowess, perhaps you could stop putting line breaks in all your posts. Everyone else manages it.

Not sure why it being listed would put a covenant on it to stop trading? There are 1000s of business in listed buildings.

I probably wouldn’t try to do to much now as we will be in peak laying season (unless you want to do a split/nuc boxes to expand your numbers). I assume you brought them through winter as doubles? If this is the case I would try reduce them down to singles after the summer flow is over, so they...

Sounds to me like they are making inefficient use of the brood box. Especially if you are considering triple brood! A commercial brood box has capacity of c.70000 cells (only Dadants are larger as far as I’m aware). If you allow 20% for pollen and 20% for honey stores that is still 42000 cells...

You’ve double brood commercials? Why?

More stable because of the more rectangular (‘16x10’) frame shape but shorter lugs so they can fit. So you take your pick of what you prefer. The box size is basically the same as the National so depending on your setup should be compatible with National kit (my setup is mostly maisemore poly so...

No but 22 National frames and 2 brood boxes work out a lot more expensive than 10/11 Langstroth, Commercial or 14x12 frames and one BB. Absolutely, you only need to check all frames when you see swarming prep. But you still have to do it when it happens. Which it will. Also we are talking...

1) National, Langstroth, Commercial 2) Langstroth 3) Personally, I would suggest to any newbie to consider avoiding a National (despite their availability) if they plan to keep a strain that needed brood and a half, or double brood. We went down the National poly/Buckfast route on the...

Can this extractor be retro fitted with an electric motor?