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great info folks, thanks a lot.

Thankyou Hivemaker, much appreciated. Where theres a will theres a way.

I wouldn't be boiling the water to heat the honey bucket , but heat water to the required temp.

Hi Folks, This is the first year I have had enough honey to store in buckets. I have acquired a burco boiler which belonged to my mum and have read a few of the posts about warming honey in burco boilers, but am not sure whether the bucket should be placed out of the water or in it. Thanks for...

Hello folks, There are three good fields of linseed in bloom close to my apiary. I was interested to see if my bees were working it and found that they were visiting the flowers but only from the under side of the flowerhead. Any comments, Roo

Hello folks, Was wondering if anyone has had the misfortune to have some honey ferment, and if so, how long did it take from extraction. I have a small batch of honey that is 21 %, it seems fine to eat right now. It has set due to it being mostly oil seed rape. And yes, lesson has been learned...

I am curious to know how many of you use nuc boxes instead of brood boxes for artificial swarming. I have 5 colonies and do not want to increase.:rolleyes:

how can we be sure? Just a thought that occured to me. when we put on our mouse guards, how do we know whether there may be a mouse in our hive already, or not. Roo :rolleyes:

Thanks for your thoughts, We decided to add some spare drawn frames and let them take it down from the wild comb on crown board. Heres hoping they get sorted fairly quickly.

Hello there, I gave a five frame nuc to a couple starting beekeeping this august. They transferred to a national hive and filled remaining space with frames of foundation. I advised to feed and help draw out some more frames before end of season, giving instructions to place feeder on to crown...

test frame queen cells? Thanks for your thoughts everyone. Was wondering how many beeks out there have had successful queens from a test frame?

Hello People, I have put a test frame in to one of my colonys that I suspect is queenless. They have built about ten tiny sealed queencells. Does anybody know why they build these useless queencells? I assume they can be of no use?:confused: Thanks Roo

Hello people, Was wondering just how long it would take workers to start laying in a queenless colony??:willy_nilly: Thanks.

Thanks for replies everyone, Just a quick question about uniting....should i put queenright colony underneath queenless one?:o

Hello everyone, Im a fairly new beek and acquired a caste last weekend, was surprised to see today that the queen is already in lay, is this unusual and how long should i leave it to unite to a queenless colony i already have ? Many thanks, Roobee-smillie