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    Jar deal

    i bought 12oz from Freemans and harding during their honey show sale £15.50 for 33 jars with black lids, i bought 50 trays or 33 jars per tray at one go as abit fedup of price hikes, occasionally run out, and its always no offers when u run out and have to buy full price. lol
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    How long would you drive to an out apiary

    Heyy Mark, nice to hear from you too! i had been very busy and not been in the forums much hence went missing in action for a while. nontheless been beekeeping well and enjoying the hobby. also hives had been expanding quite abit too but trying not to overdo it and it then becomes a chore rather...
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    Cheap 25 kg Sugar

    hi, can you confirm if the sugar is cane sugar or beet sugar? thanks Joel
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    How long would you drive to an out apiary

    hi guys, for it i got 3 sites, 1) home garden, - 3 hives, 1 nuc 2) allotment (about under 15 mins drive from home) - 3 hives 3) an ecocentre near me maintained by local land developer, they allocated a spot to keep bees there but never got a beekeeper until i approached them and it was...
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    Asian Hornets...

    not a problem, i didn't take it as offence at all. :)
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    Asian Hornets...

    the nest is about 40 ft up the tree and can't really see the hornets going in closely, i do see a few guarding around the spout from underneath yes i setup bait station by my apiary to get them to feed on that instead of hawking on my bees. By the time the NBU came and they had a constant...
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    ultra bee or feed bee pollen Substitute.

    i find that when i provide pollen mix after harvesting and in early spring the brood production improve and benefits from it. Particularly in summer after harvest, feeding the bees with feedbee or ultra bee increases winter brood production and prepare them for winter better. i don't feed alot...
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    Asian Hornets...

    BBKA social media manager contacted me and said the evening standard want to contact me so asked me if ok to give my number to them. . said yes, the standard called, interviewed me and asked for a few photos.
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    Asian Hornets...

    i actually encountered and reported the first london sighting. i had an AH nest 300m from my home apiary in London. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/environment/asian-hornets-found-london-first-time-uk-thamesmead-beekeeping-bees-b1102132.html 15 mins of fame but not for the right reasons lol
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    online store: https://latiendadelaapicultura.es/

    i got a reply from them, they said this to me. oh well. i may get it shipped to friends in france and if they come visit via channel tunnel they can bring over...
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    online store: https://latiendadelaapicultura.es/

    I am after Feedbee the pollen substitute which is is not sold in uk. used to be able to get ultra bee from bee equipment but now they also took it away and only sell 3XXg mini tubs and i believe thats the last of their stocks.
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    online store: https://latiendadelaapicultura.es/

    Hi all, just wondering if anyone bought from the below site before https://latiendadelaapicultura.es/ i am about to place a order for some pollen supplement and wonder if its a genuine site or not... thanks Joel
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    ultra bee or feed bee pollen Substitute.

    Hi, does anyone advise where i can get FEED-BEE or Ultra-Bee in the 20kg sacks nowadays? thorne used to do feedbee pre covid way back in 2019, and then bee equipment used to do ultra bee until recently they only sell 340g tubs and was told they don't have a consignment ordered and not sure if...
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    Storing Capped Frames

    ah i thought you meant u wanna add syrup into your extracted honey. lol
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    Cleaning a Konigin extractor

    i usually leave the extractor by my hives for a few hours after extraction the bees clean it up ***** and span... then gentle hose down and store.
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    Storing Capped Frames

    why do you need to add syrup?
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    drone laying queen's drones, are they any good for mating?

    ok start timeline again... on wed the 12th, i left them 1 QC at bottom BB and there are no eggs got some young larvae, and monday 24th i checked, there are more queen cells on the sides of the frames and i see no brood and no new eggs. i then knocked down all bottom QCs and leave 1 QC again...
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    drone laying queen's drones, are they any good for mating?

    No I kept 1 Queen cell in the brood box so if its still there if I check in a few days I'd let them requeen from this single queen cell. I didn't wanna keep 2 because this hive seem to have habit of casting...
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    drone laying queen's drones, are they any good for mating?

    I left them 1 QC on 12th May, thinking they will supercede the Queen but yesterday I checked, no brood and no eggs, can't find queen, and alot more queen cells. I knocked them down to 1 again if it happens again in 5 days, I will hunt her down and nuc her. Problem is I already have alot of...
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    our bees like brambles according to CEH

    this is mine, received yesterday. fig leaf gourd is a strange one i planted them in allotment and its like 3 miles away. but in 2019, i did take this colony back from allotment so may be 2019's honey remaining in the comb...?
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