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Giordan 8 frame radial drill powered extractor for sale Includes legs, drill, has tangential frame. I run of langstroth kit so fits them, not sure on nationals I’m afraid but probably can be changed. Good quality kit in good condition not rust on inside. Few bolts that hold legs have some but...

Hi After 12 years of beekeeping I’ve decided to stop (just do not have the time these days, I have a feeling later in life I will start it again). For sale 3 overwintered langstrong poly hives with strong colonies. Make me a good offer, it’s swienty poly hive with plenty of serviceable life...

Hi Not been on here for a while but here goes. Got a colony that is damn hot best queen I've ever had twice now I've had a massive queen cell in the middle frame to the right edge. Only seems to be this cell no others knocked it down twice without thinking but wondering what todo now if they...

What's the OSR doing around you - any signs of turning over? Over in Hereford first few that flowed early is now 95% green, but the ones by my bees are still vibrant yellow i'm going to say 2 and a half weeks away from turning green on those.

I did an artificial swarm a few weeks ago (well technical it was pretty much a split as didn't bother moving hive side to side to equalise numbers as this queen is a very strong layer). Old queen 2013 queen brought aug last year is upto 5 frames of brood already and bees have backfilled all...

Hi, Is anyone else experiencing issues with getting wired foundation at the moment (specifically dadant shallow). Had an order with pa*** for two weeks called them a few times don't seem to be able to tell me when its due in, with all this hot weather forecast its getting me worried that...

Got an interesting one (well for me it is!). One of my colonies that is on langstroth poly at the end of winter ended up leaving a super underneath without a QX over winter as I was too late taking it off. I now need to start thinking about when to move it above and add a QX. On last...

Think I know the answer to this but thought I'd ask anyway. Got a load of 2x1 left over and need to make some ekes up to feed fondant. Is it ok to use wood that has been tanalised?

Checked on my hives and found signs on two hives that a bird has been attacking assuming its a woodpecker. I've brought some 2x1 wood and built frame to go over but in the rush to get it sorted I've brought 13mm hole chicken wire. Is this too small for bees to fly through as I think I should...

Never made any before. As a backup plan i'm going to put my existing queens in a queen cage with some workers before requeening this weekend. How do you make queen candy fondant the easy way?? I've googled you see some using icing sugar + honey..... Thanks

Thinking of getting 2 bags of 25kg sugar for the winter as bookers has them on offers still for £36 for the 2 bags. Does anyone keep the sugar in ex-mango drums so its rodant proof and do the bees mind it?

I've ironed it to down to th**nes kit or ecostat's. Which one would you go for out of the two? Is one more suited to attached to the back of kingspan? It will be a temporary box ie. ie. it will complase when flat.

Does anyone use the t****es warming cabinet with success particularly with OSR. It's the max id spend really but doesnt seem to be anything around the price range on the market that's premade ready to go out of the box so to speak. I was planning on making one but physically am running out of...

Hi, I think I must have damaged or squished a queen somehow not sure how on my inspection Thursday as I had about 20 queen cells on Friday evening. As this was my first time I split it into two hive's to give me some redundancy and chosen two cells that wasn't as easy for me to damage to begin...

I've recently added another langstroth brood box with undrawn foundation to my strongest colony. Hopefully they will draw this out quickly if they get a flow of OSR. I hope to inspect this this weekend to see where they have got too. I have ordered 4 new queens for tail end of July/start of...

I've not extracted any honey before - what size buckets should I be buying 5litres or 10litres? Found a few sites that a a lot cheaper than the main supplies but they dont list the honey storage size!

I have one colony that is going all guns full brood nest on 7 poly frames was drawing out supers and storing nectar. I'm wondering if this hive may be good to run double brood on. When do you decide to put another brood on? I'm on langstoth polys. I don't have any drawn brood frames only two...

Rightly or wrongly i'm putting a poly super on tonight on both my hives, as well as taking off the poly patty as plenty is coming in. I don't want to put them directly. As they are not full up to brooding power yet it is a little early than id like. Why am I bothering doing this now? Rightly or...

Does anybody have a template of a bee hive they've done in word/pdf/excel etc so I can cut it out and use some tape to build a hive to practice artificial swarm?

Hi, I know it's way to early to increase the entrance due to lack of new bees. Am I right in thinking when im on 4-5 brood frames (langstroth deep) open half of entrance, 8 brood's fully open.... Or if a sudden flow starts open right up (bear in mind i've not seen a flow yet so still waiting...