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Evening all, Had a very first swarm taking residence in one of my baithives. had all my four baithives at home as was planning to paint and whack a few more nails in them but as i lifted one of the roofs off i had to put it back rather quickly .The box was full of bees.. Took the bait...

i used a plastic water bowl and fish tank heater ( temp goes up to 31 c ) to liquefy couple of jars of set honey and after 2 days i had half the jar of runny honey and bottom half still granulated.Why is that so? Cheers, lauri

Ho did you do with your one size box system this year? I converted some old standard nationals to Rose hive measures (hight 190 mm) and made some new ones out of 18mm plywood. Started with three swarms. 1 of them had two boxes and two had one box at the start. The biggest swarm ended up in...

Hi my father in law's car has this error message coming up. Can anyone help me out and put in plain English? Cheers, Lauri

checked two nucs which had given QC in. they were to hatch yesterday. Now, one of them had def. queen emerging but what about the other one?

I have QCs on a comb i need to move into roller cages. In which stage are QC safe to cut out and move ? cheers, Lauri

when using dummy boards i am occasionally left with the gap between the floor and dummy board. its because I build my own floors ( and everything else) and every year the depth of the floor tends to be what ever i dream up in the workhsop ( around 20mm) :) . Now, to get the dummy boards reach...

Hi all, I got two queens coming from one of the breeders out there. They should be arriving in this coming week but i had an email that they might be a week late. to be confirmed again during the week. These are my first ever bought in queens and i haven't introduced a queen before. Always...

How do you do it? Specially the queen finding part in this not so warm weather. i got 4 hives to join, all have 3-4 frames of bees(brood on 2 frames each ) . would like to have rather two stronger colonies before OSR kicks off. cheers, Lauri

Hi all got this problem in one of my hives . i also have one nuc were the queen came into lay recently. plan is to move the nuc into full hive and move the LW hive from it original place and place the nuc hive instead of it. so the flying bees will join the nuc hive, later on will move the...

Hi, How quickly they should draw a queen cell on a test frame when queenless? cheers, Lauri

had a look trhought one of my colonies last Thursday and one of them had three QC in the middle of the frame.no QC nowhere else. one open and two capped. Lots of brood in all stages, fresh eggs etc. left the open QC and closed the hive. Today the QC is capped, still plenty of brood in all stages...

there will be a public event in Arndale centre at Manchester and group of PhD students are doing an activity about carbon footprint of food. they have there all kind of different stuff like "kitchen" with wormery to compost food waste and a "garden" with veges you can grow yourself. And they...

i got ten hives and mixing sugar and water 2:1 is a bit of pain. so what i did. lifted the cage as high as i could in my nine frame honey exctractor, ziptied some mixing sticks to the bottom of the cage ( picture), one 13lb bucket of hot water, one 13lb bucket of sugar, mix it, when solved add...

Got my observation hive finished. Picture is taken at local jubilee event. Special thank you for Tom Bick for advice. Cheers! Lauri

got beehive full of very evil bees. problem is they are flying through the farmyard and attack people.. my boss included. as i open up they simply cover me and sting like mad. was thinking about petrol treatment but.. what i did. killed the queen, discarded all the brood, after 24h gave them...

what is the opinion, will AS now actually means not much to hope from OSR honey wise? Just had to AS two of my biggest colonies. Lauri

Hi, what kind of a obs. hive would be best for one day bee demo? I was asked to do it at the beginning of June so got some time to knock one together. Thanks, Lauri

pretty crazy stuff about building Robot bee. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/22/harvard_flat_pack_robot_bees/ Lauri