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Hi @pargyle, hope you are recovered now, looked a nasty fall... Have you managed to make any progress with the poly crownboard project?

I have already taken steps Moobee, there's a page in my To Do app for Beekeeping now and an A4 sheet in a plastic pocket in the roof of each hive that I nabbed from a post by Wilco - Hive Records question I'd like to find something electronic, but will need a forum trawl for that and papwer...

Cheers Beegarden, that is a very useful little thingummie!

Christ you are a patient man late in the evening Adam, that's a trawl and a half of our chat... Clearly some other nonsense stopped me doing the test frame on 14/07. I think we have a plan here, and a resolution to keep hive notes so that my faulty memory doesn't play tricks with me in future...

OK, I have some facts from a dusk hive dash... Two photos attached and the hive of concern has the Queen emerging on 08/07. Our confusion has crept in due to the second photo of the nuc that was Q-, but we were unclear on the date the QC was capped (correct me if I'm wrong Adam) so it has a...

See, lurky friends... Let's just call it "very limited record keeping" then. I'll look again first thing and do my damndest to spot her if she's there, and will make up a nuc for the new queen in case we do have a virgin...

As my "reliable friend" could well be reading this (hi Adam!) I will add a disclaimer that I may be misrepresenting the facts due to a faulty memory and the idiocy of not keeping records...

Hi Jeff, hope that my reply to Ian gives an idea of the sequence of events and why I think I'm queenless, although I am now questioning it with both your comments and Ian's, and so perhaps I have a new problem in that I have a virgin queen in a honeybound hive, and another queen on the way that...

I did indeed destroy the queen cells myself, but by sheer good luck had missed one. Having left it to open and hope for mating, I now have no QCs, larvae or eggs and so have concluded after three weeks that it's queenless. I have inspected weekly, and have not spotted a queen, just more and more...

Having made my hive queenless by inexperience, I found at the weekend that no further queen cells were being made and the frames were very full of either capped honey or nectar, with just a few capped Brood on a couple of frames. Under advice from friends I have a queen coming tomorrow, but...

Would be interested to know the price difference as I think I'd like to donate some to my club Apiary and that could be the 6 of the 4mm I've ordered and I'll take 6 of the shiny new ones for me, although all this depends on the pennies...

I'd take 6 Nationals with holes and rims. Sounds like you are going to be busy!