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In the process of stocktaking in my beekeeping equipment shed last week I found, some unused foundation stored in a drawer. I've also found some unused frames that my bees never drew out. My question is: can old foundation be rejuvenated to make it more attractive to bees? Ive heard it...

The BBKA are offering supplies of the Vaso Wasp trap. And suggest it could be used around the apiary. Vaso suggest a honey water mix as bait. Wouldn't this trap as many bees as wasps, rendering it unsuitable for the apiary?

I did my first inspection on Tuesday. Three hives and two nucs survived the winter all queen-right. However, all the colonies have stores of honey in the brood boxes. I was wondering, if I put supers on, will the bees move the honey stores up in order to give themselves more room for brood?

Time, I think, for my bees to be moved onto new foundation. So, do I shook swarm them, or do a Bailey change. The objectives are: to reduce the veroa and any other decease. And to discourage swarming later in the spring.

I'm thinking of taking BeeBase advice and using my domestic steam wallpaper stripper to recover old wax from frame etc. Having converted to poly hives I have some old wooden National hives I could use. I wonder if anyone has used this method of wax recovery, and if they have any advice on the...

In the spring I'm hoping to sell three colonies at the Brinsbury college beekeeping and equipment sale. At the moment the colonies are on jumbo frames. My intention is to sell them as six frames nucs. I intend to shook swarm them onto new foundation early in the season. My question is: What...

Last autumn I put my honey supers back on the hives for the bees to clean. With the mild weather, they continued to forage. Consequently the supers were never cleaned/emptied. Now we have a cold snap I went to the hives to treat with oxalic acid I removed all supers. Some of them have a bit of...

I'm planning to construct a solar wax extractor. i have most of the necessary gubbins. I can't start a project without worrying about it for weeks before starting. I woke up at for this morning fretting about putting an electric heating element under the tray for use in the dark days of autumn...

Getting my first visit from the bee inspector tomorrow. Should I offer tea and a biscuit.

In order to place my lone beehive on an allotment I had to gain permission from the local parish council. The permision is for one hive only. I read on these forums (or is it fora) that 'two colonies' is recommended, for the bee management and welfare purposes. I would like to approach the...

I'm new to beekeeping. I just wondered how some established beekeepers feel when they look in a hive. I know there's always lots of technical stuff to be considered, and jobs to be done. But I wonder about the emotional side of beekeeping. For my part I feel a sense of wonder, admiration and...

I've just bought a colony of bees from a retiring beekeeper. He tells me the hive needs a super added ASAP. Is it just a question of plonking a super, with frames and virgin foundation, on top of the brood box with a queen excluder between them?. A quick reply would be welcome, the last thing...