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I am to buy a sublimox varroa oxalic acid vaporiser. The best price i can find is from £349. Is this around the right price or can they be got cheaper... Thanks

Does oxalic acid break down over time. I bought a quantity about 5 years ago and am still using it but i have a feeling that its not as effective.

Strongest hive so far has just gone on to 8 frames of brood. A two year old breeder queen that was on the heather in August and got no autumn treatment at all, but fumigation in early January then Candipollen in late January and is in a Donegal bees national poly hive. Weather is to turn back...

A picture of a white Drone i came across last year in one of my hives. First time I ever seen one

I am looking for a photo of rat damage to a poly hive for a power point presentation, if some would be kind enough to email it to me, please. Large size, please if possible.

Has anyone an easy way of prying apart the paynes nuc and brood extension without damaging them. I had to give up on a couple this morning as I thought my fingers were going to break.

I always insert a drone frame at the start of the summer, but i find that they do damage to the frames either side because the hoffman style frame is a little too narrow. Could someone tell me the correct width for drone cells back to back and a bee space.

thankfully so far i have never had American Fowl Brood but i am aware that it could pop up at anystage. So here is a question that has popped into my head as i start thinking of my first spring inspections when i go looking for the queen and an inspection of the brood for disease. Say i come...

I got called out today to remove bees from a flat roof extension that was been reroofed as it was rotten and leaking and the rest of the house was also been completely refurbished. I removed the last plaster slab that they had left in place when they had discovered the bees. There was a good...

it wont be long now till we are doing our first spring inspections and finding our queens to clip and mark them

Hi. I was on the thrones web site and cant find the conversion rate for wax foundation. I had a person on to me this morning , looking for a couple of kilos of wax for making hand soap and wanted to know what to charge him. I haven't sold to the public for a while , but I usually charge what it...

I got a phone call from a farmer who wants me to put bees on about 20 acres of quinoa. Is it any good for producing honey,

There are two cells near the centre of the frame that the larva is not in the right position. To you think that it is EFB. I shook all the bees hard off the frame so as to take a photo of open brood and might of dislodged them out of position. https://imageshack.com/i/c293fd5ej

Here are a few photos of one of my apis mellifera mellifera queens been clipped. photos taken by my friend Kieran Harnett.

My bees working the plum tree yesterday

Doe's anyone know can the Sundance Pollen Traps(bottom fitting) be purchased in the uk to fit our national/commercial hives.

If only beekeeping was that easy http://inhabitat.com/philips-unveils-sexy-concept-bee-keeping-gadget/

I have a woman ringing, looking for 2lb of bees wax . I have never sold it to the public before as it always went for conversion to foundation , so I was wondering what to charge her. Off the top mf my head I said €20 and she said, no problem. It one of my honey queen moulds that I took a prize...

I was in gormanstown yesterday and there was a giordan 16 frame National/Manley motorised Extractor. I need to upgrade my extractor straight away and was wondering if anyone has used one of these. If not, what extractor do you recommend. I need it to take Manley commercial super frames. And...

During this last couple of weeks of fine weather all the local puddles of water have dried out and the bees have turned in to the water supply that I have out for them. They are consuming nearly a gallon of water a day.My out apiaryS all have water drains near them and you can see the bees...