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I have a problem where the bees remove my larva from the NC Queen Rearing Kit with the plastic cups and place them in brood comb? I grafted on the 4th of this month into 40 cell cups on frames (first attempt). I used a 6 frame nuc box, 4 frames of near emerging brood with a further 4 frames of...

making 10 national roofs today any idea what depth i should make them. I have 75mm x 20mm lots of this acquired free but if its not deep enough im going to b&q?

Got a new toy yesterday so built some boxes today how do they look? should i use resin to seal the ends or waterproof pva? Ducksback to paint them or sadolin?

This Year i hope to get some honey from my hives so looking to get a nice extractor. I have bought 250 Manley frames also have SN4 in the hives already my budget is 1000 pounds. The one i have been looking at is...

Just need perspex for the lid. any good?

What are the best type of smoker?

I'm new to beekeeping this year. I have 6 hives and a poly nuc. All but 2 of my hives are still laying and don't look as if they are halting anytime soon. I checked them on Saturday and they dont have a great deal of stores. The 10 frame poly hives have about 2 frames of stores and my 2...

Anyone Know where to get ambrosia syrup in bulk like a 160kg or ambrosia fondant?

Was just wondering how you overwinter these as there is no crownboard? Do i just put a super on top of the brood box and put the ambrosia fondany on to the frames?

My Dad made 3 of them what do you think? Maybe I should of taken a few pics of them before i put the hives on them. They are made from metal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvP15cxw09A&feature=player_embedded the mite zapper lol

my dad got a phone call asking if he would collect a swarm of bees so he went to inspect where the bees had landed when he got their he could see bees but not where they were coming from next day he checked again they were in the roof of a small Chalet the owner seen them go in at 10 am this...

At the start of April I received my 5 frame nuc I fed them with neopol and liquid feed also by the start of June they had 2 brood boxes and bees on all frames when I inspected I went on holiday on the 8th of June my dad inspected them on the Monday 13th he never noticed they had built a lot of...

Is this normal? seems to be a good few crawling around and few dead ones. Got them from a five frame nuc i bought. My first bees

hi all got a 5 frame nuc at the start of april bees have spread over 6 frames now filling out lots of comb but on inspection i have noticed that i have a open queen cell with larve in it. I think it maybe looks 5-6 days old at most is it to few bees to do a split? when do i do the split and how...

Hive is a British national cedar Did my second inspection since getting my 5frame nuc the roof seemed rather wet in the corners is this normal. Crownboard has a rapid feeder on it just now. I also stay in a very wet part of Scotland. Any help much appreciated

sry i have no picture my dad did the hive inspection today and noticed their was a small white mite wondering on the crown board near the feeder anyone know what this might be? any help appreciated my dad has bad eye sight so could it be a chunck of pollen? might* = mite sry spelling typed in...

hi all question on grafting if I am running double brood box and I graft into a grafting frame then put them in bottom box with queen in top box with Queen Extruder between boxes will they raise the grafts as queen cells? Or do I need to put these in another hive or the queen in another hive...

Hi all, this is my first post. I’m new to beekeeping and was hoping to find someone kind enough to check my calculations on hedgerow petes nuc box. I have British national brood frames and as he doesn’t use them in his video I made some changes to his box to accommodate this. The sizes are as...