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    cost of a hive

    Hello guys Can you give me some advice. How much would you charge for a national hive with bees? 11 frames with dummy board. The hives have varroa floor, brood box, crownboard and flat roof. No supers. Yes i know its too early to sell. Thanks.
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    bee auction- south petherton way. somerset

    Hello I have not been around for ages. Weve been really very busy with bees. I just wanted to know if anyone had gone to the bee auction today? I could not make it and was wondering how much things went for? Cheers liza
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    Exmoor Division (somerset) Taster days

    Hello Guys We are running two taster days for beginners this year. The dates are: Saturday 11th May 2013 Saturday 22nd June 2013 £22 for the day (including lunch). There will be some classroom based learning and also a hands on look at the bees. Protective equipment supplied. Booking...
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    Sending honey abroad

    Hello Guys Im trying to figure out if I can send a jar of honey as a present to Palma, Majorca to a family member. Does anyone know if this is possible? Im not sure the spanish government would allow it. Any help would be brill. Liza
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    Sending honey abroad

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    Little rant

    Hiya guys Bear with me. Was in town last week, when I saw a lady in her car, which had a flat battery (happened to me many a time). I offered to help as I had jump leads in the back. Got my car next to hers and was in the boot struggling to untangle the leads from the car, when a cop car...
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    Q running out of room

    Hello A query for you....please be gentle with me, this is my first full year. One of our queens swarmed afew weeks ago due to the fact she ran out of laying room (9+ frames of brood) and the hive had produced rubbish QC's. We split the hive with the queen on new foundation at the bottom and...
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    Spitting nails

    Walked to work on Monday and pasted my car. Some B******* has keyed the car all down the side. Not impressed. Think it was some bleep who was drunk coming back from the pub and decided it would be a fun thing to do. Gonna cost £500 to get it properly fixed. £130 for a bob job. Not worth the...
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    Exmoor Beekeepers (somerset) beginners course

    Hello Guys The Exmoor division in Somerset is running a beginners course this year. The dates are: Friday 2nd March Friday 9th March Friday 16th March. plus a practical session in the apairy. Being held at the West Somerset college in Minehead 7pm. Booking essential. Please contact Tricia...
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    BBKA Question

    Hello Chaps My brother wants his fiancee to go to the BBK spring convention but she wants to come for the whole weekend. She will need a BBKA membership No but is not sure what category she should join in. She does not need to have a magazine or insurance etc. Can she join as a Partner/country...
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    Oxalic acid

    I was just wondering what is the procedure with apply oxalic acid to hives which are on double brood? Do you dribble the acid over both boxes (cracking the open) or just on the top one? Thanks Liza
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    Is it too late..

    To feed sugar syrup? We fed aload of sugar syrup in Aug/Sept and got them up to weight (hefting)but the weather has been so mild here that the bees are out flying collecting pollen still. I have also seen drones around both hives last weekend (we know they do sometimes keep drones overwinter)...
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    Heather Honey

    Hello Guys How much heather honey did you get from your hives this year? I got just under 28lb from 1 hive. Also how much will you sell your heather honey per lb? Cheers Liza
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    Begginer- Heather honey

    Hello Guys Just finished extracting heather honey from 2 supers we have. What a pain in the A*S!:banghead: Luckily afew local beeks have the equipment to extract, which we borrowed. Have filtered 3 times (twice through a Th**nes settling/sieve tank and also a Nylon filter) and now letting it...
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    Are we doing some thing wrong?

    Just bought a Maisemore Jumbo Rapid Feeder. Have placed it on top of the crownboard and the bees dont seem to be able to reach the funnels to get the feed, as the bottom of the feeder has a bee space. Are we daft and doing something wrong? Sorry bit of a daft question!
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    Swarming!

    Hello Guys Just opened the hive yesturday and found loads of swarm cells. Could not find the queen and no eggs were seen, so think she has either died or swarmed. It seems very unlikely we will be able to get a new queen raised and mated sucessfully so late in the season. Our options are: We...
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    Bees doing too well?

    Hello Guys Did an inspection 2 days ago of our 2 national bee hives and we have abit of heather honey coming in. But the main thing is that one of the hives has 9 frames of brood and 2 frames of food (we thought that they should have been slowing down by now! when in actual fact she is going...
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    Adding Supers?

    Hello Would anyone add a super at this time of year to encourage the bees to take their stores into the super and draw it out, there by freeing up space in the brood box to get more bees to over winter? We have a hive which has a very prolific queen and she has already filled up 8frames with...
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    mating queen

    Hello guys Stupid question but: When a queen starts laying is she finished doing mating flights? Thanks
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    Good news?

    Hello Chaps As some of you are aware we bought a nuc a while ago and have (due to our inexperience) had some swarms. We "thought" we had a queen in the hive last week but was not sure and did not want to investigate just in case she absconded. Now HM presence has been confirmed.not worthy My...
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