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Just saw Paynes new additions to their poly nucs, consisting of a miller feeder and an extension which takes 6 additional brood frames. Will be available for the first time at beetradex according to their blog. No prices given.

The first issue of the BFA magazine dropped onto our doormat this morning, and i must say it looks very professional as it should do for a professional association.

I thought i would share what can be achieved in six weeks. This is the extracting area. Attached to this is a 20ft x 20ft storage area.

Phew, thought I had EFB in one of the apiaries but sbi confirmed it was just a frame of abandoned brood. LFD used. At least i got to see and use an LFD, better than just reading the instructions. Now have a couple of spares for me to test with just in case. No substitute for the confirmation by...

Just got back from one of the apiaries and in one colony I have had two queens since last August. They were on the same comb together but the problem is that there are three frames of sealed brood but some of the brood is mixed drone brood. Now the problem I have is which one is the drone...

Whooo Got the letter today to say i had passed. Six weeks of worrying now over. Spent nearly a year in the preparation for it. :cool:

I am after Form and function in the honey bee by Lesley Goodman, has anyone got a copy for sale? :) I know this is a long shot as i have trawled the internet, Northern beebooks etc.

Says it all really:rolleyes:

Have just got back from the honey show. My wallet is lighter now i have a microscope and all the bits to go with it. We got second place in one of the classes, so am chuffed at that. Never entered before and will be entering more shows me thinks.

PH, Good article, and well written. Have just bought 4, and after reading what you had to say i think i may be convert. not worthy

I am planning a larger expansion next year, and I have another site given to me to use that I plan as a queen rearing apiary. I could probably get about twenty hives on here so that gives you some idea of the space. I want to setup a couple of drone mother hives so I can try to flood the area...

On the 3rd July i found an unmarked queen where there should have been last years blue one. So i marked her white, finished off and closed up. 30th July i could not find the new white marked queen but i did find the original blue one. Now i am confused. Yesterday, 24th August, i found the...

I thought i would put a couple of mini nucs in our back garden, as we usually place them in an out apiary for mating. This was done just to see what results i would get. Today i found about fifteen drones all dead with their sexual organs showing as in the picture. Can anyone say if this is...

My wife asked this question to me, and i am wanting to know the answer as i couldn't explain it to her. All those with more than about 40 colonies, how do you go about working them etc? Is it done with so many a day or do you do them all at once? Do you have some kind of routine? How do you...

From what i understand from the site, they are closing it down at the end of the year. :( This has been one of my fav sites and i am quite disappointed. Does anybody have a copy of the queen rearing video that i could borrow or buy? or any of the videos?

Having just seen the warming cabinet that MrB has made, has anybody attempted to make a queen cell incubator? I have seen them going for well over £100 and thought this might be a good project to build if it is possible.

Can anybody tell me how to make the frames that brother adam used at buckfast where the frames were cut in half for his mating nucs? I can cut them in half no problem, but it is the hinged part that i am having problems with. The idea was that the two halfs could be put back together and the...