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You know what. I’m with you on this. I bloody hate this practice. Did one hive and then decided to leave the other two as an ‘experiment’ this year. I know that not nadiring is more likely to get brood in the super but it doesn’t greatly affect me as my winter supers are always exclusively for...

Tempted to give SBI a call this week to discuss. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

National. No real signs of robbing. Like I said it was very strange as brood and supers all seemed happy and heathy. Shook off a brood frame and brood was looking good and present in all stages. Bees were calm. Only oddity was just how wet the QE was but again this may have been down to...

All workers. Plenty of food in brood and they still had a full super left on. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So went into a hive yesterday and to my shock found 1000s of dead bees all stuck in the queen excluder. Inspected the rest of the hive and plenty of food, space etc. No sign of disease and generally other than the dead bees everything looked happy. Side notes: QE was dripping wet which I am...

Thanks all for the replies. I’m hoping to get rid ASAP so something like those mushroom crates would be ideal for brining small batches in the car. Will take a look at those. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have recently extracted about 150lb and beginning to store in 1lb squat jars. My question is what do people store jars in? Crates/ boxes. Looking for something strong enough and a nice convenient siZe. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve been using the same recipe for a few years now. - 1/2 jar plum jam - Dissolve in 1-2 cups of water - Add 1 pint pale ale (this year was non-alcoholic ghost ship)* * don’t waste good alcohol on them! That was enough for a few home made traps. Killed a few hundred in a few days. Sent...

They will be for different things. As honey is low in water content then you will need one that does low water content. Typically one that measures 58-90% Brix is suitable for honey. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve knocked up a simple wax melter - black plastic box with Perspex on the top and inside there’s an old baking tray on the slant with holes drilled in it and a box filled with water. Dump the wax on a piece of kitchen roll on the baking tray and it will drip down thru the holes and into the...

First real inspection since the poor weather last week. At least one hive was quiet at the entrance so knew I was gonna see some swarm losses. Hive 1 was in great shape loads of bees on BB+1/2 unable to find Q so left as Bb+1/2 and supered on top. Second hive has swarmed and possibly cast...

Went into two out of three hives both with super under bb for winter. What a mess with brood comb all underneath super frames. First time dealing with post winter so wasn’t really sure what to do so moved super back up above bb in the hope that Q will start laying down in the bb then I can put...

Awesome thanks for the replies. Glad to know I’m not doing anything terribly wrong. First batch so don’t know what to expect. Thanks again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just would like some clarity (lol) on this one please. I have a gallon of light mead that I have already racked off twice and it has been resting for a good 5/6 months now in bottles. When I looked the other day I could see specs of white on the bottom of the bottles; not much maybe a 6/7...

Hi. I found this a fantastic book. I read it cover to cover before starting beekeeping and now I’ve completed my first year I need to take a look through again to pick up on some more bits in light of what I’ve seen. It certainly helps to read a book like this but I found it a little clunky...

Yep. These are the ones I use. Cuff is long and wide enough to easily go over suit and get a solid bee-proof seal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hiya Dan Welcome to the forum. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks Jenkins. Will give them some more time and see. Like I said, they weren’t behaving Q- so fingers crossed. Cheers Andy

Will get into the hive again on the weekend so hopefully will see some eggs then. Fingers crossed. Cheers Andy

There were three cells, one capped and two being capped. That was 3 weeks ago. By my maths I was thinking 7 days to emergence, a few days getting ready to fly, a few days mating and a week laying would make 3 weeks. As a side note, they didn’t seem Q- went in with little to no smoke and no...