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Hi All, Sorry, but I’ve spent ages in search mode looking for a link to thermostat, a nice square job, someone put it up on the forum late last year (I think, time slips by so fast at my age lol) If I’d done what I was going to, I’d have the link saved up, guess what, yep forgot, but if some...

Hi one and all I have a 14x12 nuc for sale. The nuc is bursting with bees and will need to be moved onto a full hive very soon. 6 frame nuc 4+ frames of mixed brood August 2009 queen, marked but not clipped. PM me please for further details Rich

Forth summer beekeeping so I thought it's about time I had another crack at grafting, (it must be all the talk on here about it) just did a graft of 10 cells, hope I have better luck than last time, 12 grafted none taken, .... then gave up :( We've got LOADS of rape in full flight, fingers...

Hi one and all, I was talking to an old beekeeper the other day, he said that it was ok to take a super from one hive with bees in and place on a different hive and they'd all get on ok with no fighting ..... I know about disease and the rest, but I was just wondering about the statement, I've...

Hi All, Wondering on this rainy day, is there a good reason why a British Standard Commercial is any better than a Standard National 14x12 brood box? Can’t see it myself, but then again, I quite often miss the blindingly obvious. :) Just a query from a beekeeper who’s stuck indoors .. Rich

Hi, I had a duff queen a little while back, laying as many drone eggs as workers, the colony soon superseded her. I just hope they knew which were the worker eggs :) My question is do I now need to replace the entire brood comb where the old queen was laying the drone eggs. Am I going to still...

Hi All Did An inspection yesterday; I have one hive with a queen from Norton last year, this colony is getting a bit tight for room even in my inexperienced eyes. Seven full frames of varying brood, just a small area around the edges for stores. Three frames stuffed with pollen and stores, (no...

Hi All, Well here we go again, the start of my third season of this obsessive hobby called beekeeping. :) I do wish the bees would at least try reading the books. Then again, that would take all the surprises out of the inspections Last year I had a swarm on the 12th April, everyone was saying...