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i use it on my hives, after the oxalic treatment. i put a hardend bag of sugar on the hole in the crown board or in the super if wintering on brood and half. its a handy way of checking on the hive and a cheap stopgap if the bees have run out of food for some reason, and so giving you some...

Quote: Originally Posted by melormynydd could end up with the mites that cause nosema geting resistant. not good for anyone i think quote alanf: Is there a typo here? Nosema is a fungus? yes sory, you are right alanf my mistake i ment fungus not mite

c wynne jones is the cheapest i think, and they had plenty last week

fumidil b is an antibiotic so not a good idea to use without the need to, could end up with the mites that cause nosema geting resistant. not good for anyone i think

i would go back to the hive and destroy all but one of the remaining queen cells, or you risk having cast swarms with the next emerging virgins. and do this asap when you find a queencell in a hive good chance there are more than one, so you need to inspect the hive afew days later (around 4...

hi mymwood if you have normal worker brood in the brood box and all seems well their with eggs and un sealed larvey there is no problem bees make drones nothing to worry about. is the colonie on a brood and a half setup and with only 4 frames of brood? if it is, its not strong enough to have a...

were there any bees in the super? if not, did you get the queen excluder from thorns? cos it could be one of their faulty batch of excluders.

sory should have said "queen cell" not "queen cup"

you are right i know nothing about genetics, but if the bees show me one thing and a book shows me another then i will try to listen to the bees rather than go against them. it has worked for me in the past

add another super now, on top of the other super(thought id mix it up a bit) :)

no need to brag is there! :)

i agree with MM, destroy queen cup and check in a few days for more cells

treated timber is ok for roofs and floors, wouldnt use it myself for the brood or supers

yes looks ok to me, will get biger as she comes in to full lay

hi MM i understand what you are saying with being close to children, but if you have an out apiary move them there and sort them out. it might be the bees i have(and am very lucky i think) but what i have expirienced with re queening is that a nasty bunch of bees will calm down within a few...

DO NOT KILL THE BEES! i cant understand anyone doing that what a waste! on a sunny day move the hive to one side, around 2m away from original site, place a spare hive on original site to recive flying bees. after a few hours hive with queen will have been emptied of flying bees (the ones...

easyest thing to do is to shake the bees outside another hive entrance and leave them to it. or if you want them to raise another queen, shake the bees on the ground or in to a hedge a few meters from the hive position, bees will return to original position and queen will die outside of hive...

"In these days of digital cameras is it really necessary to mark queens?" in my mind Yes. the bigest reason for marking for me is to make manipulations like artificial swarms easyer . a big white mark in a sea of black bees is much easyer to find. if you have many hives and they all decide to...

the 4.42 is for 1kg(2.2lbs) of honey