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    Netting around hives

    Hi I keep my bees in someone else's garden - the 2 hives are on a border facing out onto the garden so it renders that part of the garden pretty useless for anything else. The owners have some little people visiting them next week who are likely to be running around the garden playing. My plan...
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    Super above or below brood over the winter??

    thanks everyone, Interesting on the insulation front - I thought us Londoners can get away without insulation and that the more important thing is ventilation (mesh fppr should answer that one though?) And on the acid front: North London Beekeepers Assoc advise us to use Oxalic acid at Christmas...
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    Super above or below brood over the winter??

    Hi I use a 14x12 deep brood box but I also have some stores on a super. Which is the best set-up over winter: 1) Super above brood with QX between the two (presumably the cluster won't break up and leave the queen so they won't move up to take the super stores?) 2) Super above brood with no QX...
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    How should I store frames over the winter?

    Thanks for the advice. So when are the wax months alive and kicking? Are they only around from Spring to Autumn?
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    How should I store frames over the winter?

    Just wondered what the best advice is for storing drawn (empty) frames over the winter. Is it ok to leave them in a empty hive on site with the entrance closed? And what is the product of choice for keeping wax moths at bay and any other nasties that might take a shine to them whilst there are...
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    Advice on swapping old comb

    Ah well that would rely on me remembering what I did last year!!
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    Advice on swapping old comb

    Hi So I purchased my bees on standard brood last season but changed all but one frame onto deep brood frames last year. I'd now like to swap out the one remaining standard brood frame as it's old and black and of course the bees build brace comb on the bottom to fill out the space in the deep...
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    Th***es 2nd's.

    I started up last year and my national hive was a 2nd from said retailer - it was fine. Although they said it would only have 'live' knots mine had a dry one which fell out - but nothing that a little wood glue couldn't fix. Also the crown board was bowed, but they sent me a new one. Certainly a...
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    Supercedure advise please

    So MJ Bee - then this is a good thing to have two co-habiting queens - 2 queens = more brood?? Or does it confuse the colony who won't work as efficiently
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    Supercedure advise please

    There are bees on about half of the 11 frames. ...So in supercedure what happens to the old queen? Why doesn't she kill off the newbies in the Q Cells? Will the new queen/queens kill her or will both live happily together and both lay - Ted Hooper seems to think this can happen - and if this...
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    Supercedure advise please

    Hi I took advantage of the warm weather on Friday in London to inspect my 2nd colony. Its a small colony and I suspect the queen (new from June last year) isn't very strong - I had taken a queen cell from my other hive and stuck it on the brood comb last year - wasn't a very big Q cell but she...
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    How much winter stores needed in a 14x12 brood box

    Can anyone advise please. The answer will no doubt depend on the size of my colonies, but I'm trying to get an idea of how many frames of stores on 14x12 will be enough for my colonies. Currently I have two colonies as a result of an artificial swarm in May. So they are not huge. But both have...
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    Converting from standard to deep brood - help

    Hi I am a brand new beekeeper in London. I have a national hive with 14x12 brood box and deep fames of foundation to fit. However I have just purchased bees (1 week ago) on 8 frames of standard. And at the time of purchasing the guy added 2 frames of my 14x12 foundation into the brood box - so...
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