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several possibilities here 1 your queen could have gone off lay likeley 2 your queen was infertile possible but if she had been laying before you might expect to see drone brood first actions you...

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Top bee space is easy all you require is a thin metal strip on the ledge itself you already have the beespace required by not putting the rail in. In fact you can leave the strip out entirely and just run a smear of petrolium jelly along the ledge itself or on the underside of frames lug.

Interestingly enough I was given a substantial number of paradise bee box langstroth poly hives about eight of which I have converted to hold smith frames. I manage to get 13 smith frames in each box and with small insert at the base of the box these work wonderfully. This gives me the...

I used PVA on mine over a year ago and still holding strong

How did you introduce the queen?

I am told that if you load google maps on your phone that it will locate the tag anywhere. I have yet to try this so I will let you know.

I have recently come across G-tags made by gigaset these device enable you to monitor the location of your hives,keys,motors etc. via a mobile smart phone. The ones I obtained 5off for under £45 all in. The devices are 35mm square and 7mm deep. easy to hide in a hive and even embed in a frame of...

Eyes testing time I think its gas powered:

Oldish mongerals probably, old because they have lost all the hair this tends to make slightly shiny and appear darker.

I also wont tell them that I make my own thymol recipe either

If OAV is meant to allude to Oxalic Acid , I use this in sublimated form in Feb-March but sh!! dont tell the NBU

If you use nationals Vita moded the instructions I believe to using only 1 strip in these hives, 2 strips appeared to be too much for a national hive to cope with resulting in lost queens.. The original testing I believe was undertaken on langstroths which have a 25 % greater brood volume.

For the second year running I have used MAQS in August and for the second year running almost immediately I have had Queens turn Drone layer after the application of the treatment. Last year it was 4 out of 16 this year 3 out of 18 turned drone layer. I run both National and Commercial hives...

About £200 or there abouts

Its fundimental really. the workers can only make a queen from a hatched lava upto 3 days old. If no queen has been laing in the hive int he last 6 days they ar not going to have any raw material to raise a queen from.solutions are:1 obtain a new queen 2.introduce some eggs from another...

I agree. If they continue you can always introduce a new brood box above an empty super and place all the nectar filled frames in this replacing the moved frames with foundation. They will then do two things you hope move the nectar down to a super above the brood box and secondly pull some new...

do you have starting point recommendation then for a motor then if I havent got this how can I decide on a more power one. I am thinking of a motor about 90 -120 watts with a reasonable ammount of torque But WHAT final drive speed should i be going for?????????????

That is what I intend to do but I am still trying to figure out what the optimal rotation speed is that I am going to need. I dont want to buy a motor and then find that it will not reach this speed:hairpull:

Thanks Bee Friendly but I think that 2800 figure is the raw motor speed before gearing can have been applied. I have found one extractor with the raw speed of 4000rpm with a gearing ratio of 27:1 bringing it down to a maximum rotational speed of 150. What i can not ascertain is whether this...