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Hi I have two children size beekeeping suits which I no longer have a need for. If anyone nearby to Maidenhead would like to have them please let me know. I don’t want anything for them and would be pleased to see them go to good use.

Good afternoon, Having given up beekeeping - at least until retirement - I have the following items to sell as a job lot. BROOD BODY, FLATPACK NEW x2 MOUSE GUARD USED x2 EKE X2 CROWN BOARD USED X3 QUEEN EXCLUDER, WIRE & WOOD USED X2 4 INCH ROOF, FLAT NEW X1 4 INCH ROOF USED X3 MESH FLOOR, NEW...

I need to add another super and the only one I have has frames that have been used before. They have dried out wax and last years pollen in them, likely from another colony; Can I add these to a colony in the knowledge that the bees will clean them up before storing honey.

I have two hives - one is very calm and palic, the other is angry to say the least. The angry ones are prone to attack the veil when the hive is opened and will follow persistantly for more that 50 yards, This hive has 2 capped supers and another on the way. The queen is laying with eggs seen...

Earlier in the year I lost a swarm, luckily for me I managed to capture it and re-united it with the original. I now am in the position of having two national brood boxes, lots of bees, a nice laying queen sepaerated with an excluder from a super which is just being drawn out. Whats the best...

I have a national with one super getting pretty full. Just inspected this evening during a break in the weather and find brood box very full, lots of sealed and unsealed brood, eggs and drone brood - but three queen cells in the face of frames. Two are already sealed and one has bene broken...

Hi. I am just finishing treatment with Apiguard, having used an eke (about 3'' deep) to allow space for the foil tray above the brood box. During the last week the bees have almost totally filled the space between the eke and the crown board with wax and filled this with stores. Any advice to...

I am new to beekeeping, taking a nuc from Thornes at the end of May. Up until last week (Tuesday) all was going well until I noticed a number of queen swarm cells at the bottom of the cells. I spoke to Thornes who told me to break them down which I did on Wednesday There was also shorty after...