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Check out the paradise hive swarm trapping system to reduce inspections to 21 days .This can be achieved in nationals by using a queen excluder :entrance block to close main brood chamber and a simple wedge for top entrance. Trapping a queen at artificial swarm means the upper chamber can be...

My own solution has been to make half national 6 frame nucs. The frame hanger ends are normal national and the long walls are simply 9mm wbp ply. i.e. 2*9mm + 6 *35mm normal brood DN5 national frames. (228 close enough to 230 mm!) The floor is divided with a batten to meet a vaselined 9mm...

Hi beeno; I seem to have some pollen more or less all year, but one year there were no pollen stores at all in one hive at Christmas, they still did OK. I do let them build up naturally. Surely, you have some pollen in the NW or are you anxious to chase early OSR? My own interest at present...

Is brood food an indicator for feeding at any time Thanks for your quick reply but still wondering how much value I can put on reading brood food stores in young larvae.

We had a very late start and low temperatures here in NW England for 2015(until end of May).Flowering was nearly 1 month behind normal for forage. I noticed that pollen/bee bread stores were lower than expected from end of February onwards. From my previous grafting experience the newly...