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There was couple on eBay last week, one in Sevenoaks and two in Chichester, may have gone now.

I used MAQS in my first year and sure it affected the queen and she didn’t lay after that so I replaced her, the following year I used MAQS again and it killed the queen outright. I have never used since.

My first year was crap, the queen stopped laying so I swapped her out, the next year I got 81Ibs of honey. I applied MAQS before wintering and the product killed the queen, it was to late to get another queen and in the end they produced a drone laying queen which is no use to man nor beast. At...

I’ve had a good experience with Caddon Hives

Yes that’s what I did, certainly saved the arms from cranking the extractor and the bees got to clean the empty frames.

Hello from Hastings ish

2020 was my best year down here on the south east coast, I got 81pounds of honey from one hive. I doubt I will see that kind of return again?

Did my last OA vapour yesterday and have had a very low mite drop so far. Gave them some fondabee as hive feeling a bit light and have seen a lot of capping debris on the varroa floor so they must be hungry. Was quite surprised to see as many bees as I did when I popped on the food.

Yes was well aware of that but they are better than the off the shelf type ones apparently.

This was about 6 hours after the sting, it was burning up and the pain was traveling up through my hand into my wrist, it kept me awake at night. In the end all my knuckles were swollen and then I gave in and called the doctor. About three years ago I got stung just below my eye and again the...

This is what the doctor gave me to use in the future, one tablet a day.

This was my finger about 6hours after the initial sting and it kept getting worse.

I got stung on my finger this year purely by accident trying to get one of my bees out of my car. Long story short it ended up between my fingers and stung me. My finger had a bad reaction and I had to call the doctor and send him some images. He gave me some antibiotics but also gave me some...

Thanks I will take another look in a few days as I only saw a couple of raised cappings and a few still uncapped. Hopefully giving them a bit more time will show me if there is capped workers or drones. My general feeling is that she is a drone layer especially the way my luck has been after the...

Yes the hive is really busy with workers and actively foraging and storing for winter.

I didn’t introduce the new queen until 4 weeks after loosing the original queen and in that time a new cell was accelerated through but spent ages looking through the frames twice in two weeks after the cell opened and never saw her or any larvae so when I introduced the new queen I checked...

Laying drone not stone, poxy predictive text

Is there a physical difference between a true queen and a laying stone? The reason being she looks a perfect shape and size in every way.

Well much has happened since original post. I found a queen cell but the process seemed very accelerated from less than a week for one to be formed and sealed. Then a week later cell opened but no sign of a queen. My newly bought queen arrived and after a another inspection for an existing queen...

Thanks for that