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Hi Thanks for the interesting thread. After some advice on smoking, I realised that my original problem of killing lots of bees within the rebates was purely down to having a bad smoker setup. I’ve since sorted my smoker (the false floor had popped down to the bottom, meaning there was no...

Yes that’s where I am. It could be to do with the rebates keeping the rain out.

Thanks a lot. That all makes sense. I’ll give it a think and consider how much money I’d lose by switching hives. Might be worth it now before I start expanding. I’m not a sissy, but I don’t like the sound of crushing the bees each time I put a box down. So unless I find a solution (as...

Thanks but that’s not very helpful… is it really that bad? I see plenty of other keepers using them. I bought it after getting a recommendation, and after Black Mountsin Honey’s video on them.

Hi Newbie here. I’ve got two hives, one wooden national and the other is an abelo 12 frame national. My issue is that when I go to put the super back onto the brood box, I keep killing bees in the seam of the Abelo hive. With the wooden national, you can sort of brush them off. But with...

Hi Not too sure. Have lots of hardwood forests around, and live in a village so have flowers too. Also have a field or two of oil seed rape within a mile or so, so hopefully they don't take too much of that (as I've heard you need to remove the honey soon after they store it).

Hi all! New beekeeper here from the Black Isle, in the Highlands of Scotland. I have the 12 Frame Abelo polyhive, with one colony in it right now. I have ordered a queen for the end of May, with the intention to split the colony into two, and use my other wooden national hive: to have two...