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Just got myself a Gas vap to try this year (got fed up of disconnecting the car battery) , question is at what intervals would you treat at? I have read some suggest day 1 , then 6 then 14 . What's everyone's thoughts?

Anyone want : Apiguard gel trays x 6 exp 08/22 Maqs Sachet (2 strips) x 1 exp 01/23 Exeter

Daft question , is there any reason a poly hive can’t be painted a dark colour , I.e battleship grey.It won’t melt with the heat in summer will it ?

Was out in the backyard this morn walking past the hives as usually do , got whacked right under bridge of my nose , one hive is queenless which I know of and was requeened this morn and the other is possibly finding it a bit hot in there so added a few more supers. Wondering if OSR is coming to...

Does anyone leave the supers on all year ? Example , take off the supers from above the brood box and QE end of year , extract then nadir all said supers under the box until weather is warm again in spring , then reverse to put all supers back above? Logic being the honey not extracted gets...

Afternoon everyone , will be moving to Devon end of this month and taking the ladies with me . When does the season generally get started around the Exeter area?

Anyone here tried to use newspaper moving a hive? For example , using a sheet or two of newspaper over the entrance and allowing them to chew through it to help re-orientate ?

Any recommendations on fondant suppliers that wont pull my pants down ? Got a big block off chocolate falls but they are all out of stock now.

Got two hives at the moment,both quite strong , 1 is a "dark" bee from a swarm I caught and the other is Buckfast. The dark hive is non stop rammed at the entrance and still plenty of traffic even now , the buckfast hive is silent as the grave , the odd forager coming and going. Both have been...

I've been reading alot of posts on this forum , some excellent information and knowledgable people, however I do chuckle out loud when i read some of the arguments that kick off !I have never been to a face to face beekeeping meeting, but i can imagine the police being called to a church hall in...

Had a wander down to my hive in the back field today with morning coffee , to my amazement wasps were freely moving in and out as if it were theirs .Got the gear on and yep confirmed hive bing hammered inside .Entrance reducer was on but wasn’t helping.In a last ditch attempt I have salvaged the...

Been searching high and low for an extractor ,looked at all options , well.....happened to be driving past maisemore apiaries , went in for a 2 frame manual plastic , come out with a 9 frame radial /3 frame tang stainless 😂 Guess buy once buy good, plus the tang be handy for the dadant frames !

Anyone on here been to Eton,Harrow or Winchester?

A question to which I think I may already know the answer.If a colony you own swarms and you manage to catch it in a swarm trap. Providing you don't want any more colonies , is it possible to squish the swarm queen and re-unite the swarm with the parent colony with newspaper method, obviously...

well that worked, only finished it today !

I know this has probably been done to death but I need to make a queen excluder for these paradise honey lang nucs. I've tried cutting down a plastic one but not very happy with it .Thanks to the design of these paradise honey boxes with their locking edges it makes for ,well,not the most...

Just been to have a look at hive ,noticed some bees with DWV. Treated with apiguard in Aug and oxalic in December .Thinking of giving them 3 doses of oxalic sublimation a week apart.Any other ideas?

Could do with some ideas , want a new poly Dadant but eyebrows are being raised. Any ideas? Thought of........."no way they must have got mixed up and sent me this by accident hun"

Evening all I see on Thornes there are a few books by Bro Adam, any recommendations which one is the best ? I should add purely from interest rather than a how to guide .

Evening all Is there any issues treating for varroa with apiguard or similar whilst there are some empty supers on end of season?So for example an empty super that has been nadired end of the year to raise the nest off the ground and provide some space.