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I managed to get the bait hive complete with frame of brood (no bees) pretty close to the entrance. I watched them for a while and had to plug up a couple of other holes with plugs of foam before I was satisfied they didn't have any other ways back in. This was yesterday just after I set it up...

Thats looks like a tricky place to seal up. Perhaps just peel the lead up and take a few tiles away from that corner so you can get a better look, if their in that top corner you might not have to take many tiles off at all to reveal the nest. Have you got a bee vac? If not it could be a good...

Neil, when you have done it was the brood without any bees when you added it? As James said brood without bees is better as it prevents any chance of fighting but I guess my concern is how long it will take the trapped out bees to give up on trying to get back into their nest and then find and...

Yes though since this colony only arrived in the wall this week I'm hoping they won't be too established yet!

Yes exactly. They are in a stone wall, I have made a one way mesh cone thst will allow them to escape but not re-enter, the nuc with brood will be positioned just outside with the idea being that the bees are attracted into the nuc by the brood.

Hi, I am about to attempt a trap out for the first time. Having read up on it a bit I am fairly sure I understand the process but I have one question that i havent found an answer to yet. So, for anyone who has experience of this - when you add a frame of brood to a nuc do you use a frame of...

15th of April!

One of them may have been me as I had my 2 daughters in tow, they enjoyed the show more than they expected to I think!

It was great to meet you Mark. the show as a whole was excellent.

I'd say its a Dor beetle (which is a variety of dung beetle). Did you get a look at its underside by any chance?

Last year I successfully extracted a small amount of Heather honey by carefully using an uncapping fork as a loosener. It was very slow going but it did work. This year I bought a proper handheld loosener - which was frankly also pretty slow.

Yesterday evening I went to check on a frame of QC's that had been due to emerge that day. Most of the QC's had emerged and were looking great but for some reason the bees had taken against one of them and were busy sealing every gap in the roller cage with wax. The queen inside has emerged and...

I think success is probably more likely with freshly felled timber than rehydrated although that is still better than dry timber. I started with a couple of freshly cut sycamore logs approximately 6" across and 3' long, drilled holes all over at about 6" spacings and hammered plugs into them...

It may take a while for them to get going, oak it quite resistant to fungi so that may slow it down too. Keep the logs damp and eventually the fungi should gain the upper hand.

We have a couple of mushroom logs In the garden, one shiitake and one white oyster both made using the plugs bought off the internet. They did take a while to get going (not much off them the first year) and the conditions need to be right when you get them going. It's all pretty straight...

Or one of the travel bolts that hold the drum in place for transportation!

This is the law of sheds, storage and outbuildings in action: you will always need one more than you have!

My local Sawyer is doing larch featheredge for £13.50 per m² at the moment. Build it yourself and get the shed you want. You'll be happier in the long run!

I like Englebert Strauss for safety boots. On the more expensive end but I wear mine all day every day and their comfy.

I really enjoyed it, plenty of food for thought!