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I have modified a French dadant hive to have frames with self spacers and runners rather than frames which rely on the castellations for spacing - How do I transfer my existing colony in a hive with conventional French dadant frames to my modified hive? I cant do any artificial swarms or any...

Please can someone explain why the queen excluder should be taken off over the wniter. One reason I have heard of is that the cluster might go to the top leaving the queen exposed - but there really isn,t much room on top of the frames and under the crown board, and surely the cluster stays in a...

Does anyone know? If the bees make oil seel rape honey and it cristalizes in the frame before I can spin it off - are the bees able to make use of it? , ie. can you give it back to them to eat, say in the autumn or the spring? Buckfast

I reqd that you can you use essential oils containing Thymol; Winter green, lemon grass etc. and add them to the feeding syrup. I particularly want to use the one containing Thymol. Has anyone tried this? and if so - what proportions of oil to syrup did you use? Buckfast