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any tips we bought a cheap 3 frame extracter but not too impressed with the quality what is the best way to extraxt the honey , bear in mind this is our 1st attempt , how much of the wax do you need to scrape off etc , basically i need some tips advice lol:cheers2: have been trying to...

started our apiguard today but in the midst of some confusion my wife put the gel upside down on top of the frames and so it would have emptied out over some of the frames . will this do them any harm ? ie overdose etc also you are advised to put these foil trays on top of the frames under the...

a month ago i was stung in th eye by a bee after i had probably been a little too rough with them so i excepted that . my wife has been tending the bees since and she has been clearing the supers this week so that we can treat the bees and get ready for winter. she took the one super off the...

a bee keeper we met says at the start of the season he basically leaves them alone with 3 supers on and returns end of season to harvest what are your thoughts :confused:

how well does the frame need to be capped , 100% ? ours are two thirds capped at the moment so have left them on the hive

this has no doubt been asked before but what/when /how would you personally do/use for varroa ttreatment ? many thanks in advance bee-smillie

well after my last sting in the eye on monday i can safely say i am alergic to bee stings , i have always been a little sensitive to insect bites when i have been on holdays etc this sting did not make me feel ill but because of the location it basically closed my eye , i think the swelling is...

following on from my thread yesterday about two many supers i went down today and basically made 2 supers up from the 3 . this was ok but the bees went mental and followed me up to the house and would not leave me alone . eventually took cover in my house and put all my gear back into the garage...

another question for you all , a few weeks ago my 1st super filled up nicely , stuck another super in and they started on that nicely. the problem i think is that i stuck a third super on and this seems to have slowed evrything up , original super is now nearly all capped which is great and i...

added another super today that should keep them busy for a while decided not to use smoke this time and they went ballistic at me :cuss: smoke from now on bee-smillie

if you have got fully capped frames in your super is it wise to remove them and replace with new frames or drawn frames if you have enough supers leave them untill you extract all at once. if you remove them can you store them untill ready to extract many thanks again :cheers2:

will be putting on my 3rd super this weekend but need to ask a question the spacers i have are the wrong ones for the spacing in my national super , has you know normally get 11 frames in there , with my new spacers the super will accomodate 8 frames but this got me to thinking whether this...

checked out our bees today and everything looks fine apart from could not find the queen anyway we thought we had missed her so put hive back together and was just about to walk away and there she was on the floor controlled panic set in , quickly lifted off supers and gently put her back in...

a little concerned this evening , there seems to be a lot of bees just inside the entrance and about 5 or 6 hanging around the entrance , i did put another super on monday so they should have enough room, am i just being over cautious about swarming or is this a sign. they have just sent my...

have bought some diy frames for my super, they go together great but what actually holds the wax in , i was going to panel pin the frames to make them secure , there is a piece of wood on the frame that looks like it would accomodate a wedge of some discription and that would hold the wax in or...

even though i am putting supers on when required can the brood box get over crowded ? is it an idea to remove some of the frames that have capped honey stores on them and replace with empty frames ? many thanks in advance :seeya:

put my 1st super on last week and 8 out of the 11 frames are already drawn out in a week :hurray: do i wait untill the honey is started to be capped before i put the other super on or should i put the other super on inbetween the 1st super and the brood next weekend ? many thanks , learming...

just added my 1st super to my hive and all is well, have the qx under the super and crown board on top of super. when the super is full i intend to put this one at the top and slip another super in between , question is do you put the super straight on top of the other (which is what i am...

my wife had her 1st sting yesterday off our bees :reddevil: my scotty got the bees annoyed by messing around by the hive and a couple had a go at him, my wife in her wisdom tried to brush them off so they stung her :Angel_anim: i never felt a thing :reddevil:

can you keep and harvest honey from bumble bees bee-smillie or are they protected etc asking these questions has a friend has 2 nests in his garden and is a little unsure what to do and i must admit to not knowing much about the bumble bee.