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    Help Needed!

    Thanks Thanks. Should I replace some of the frames with fresh ones to give them some space and the opportunity to draw the wax? There literally is no space on the frame that isn't full of stores.
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    Help Needed!

    Hi, I have just started beekeeping again after a break of about 3 years. I took delivery of a new colony a month or so ago. Everything was ok. We have been away for 3 weeks and I came home yesterday to find the colony in a ball hanging underneath the floor of the hive. I opened up the hive...
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    Bee supplies in Kent or Surrey

    I have a hive in a school I work in. I was called by my site manager who said "your bees have escaped and are hanging from a tree". Why is it that now I have a hive in the field in a 33acre site any bees that appear in the vicinity must be mine? Lol!!! As the swarm was low hanging and causing...
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    Bee supplies in Kent or Surrey

    Dear all, I urgently need to buy a National hive, already made-up. Can anyone suggest somewhere in Kent or Surrey I could buy one complete? I work in Bexley in Kent and I need to buy one tomorrow morning en-route to work. I live in Buckinghamshire and travel along the M25. Cheers Sam
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    Bailey Comb Change

    Thanks a million.
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    Bailey Comb Change

    Thanks. So would you leave the two holes in the board, rather than but escapes in them or cover them completely with mesh?
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    Bailey Comb Change

    Hi, A week ago I started a Bailey comb change and today I inspected my two hives and it was ready to move on to stage two. I found the queens, moved them to the new brood box and added queen excluders. I was told to create a new entrance and the guy from Thorne's tole me to use a crown board...
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    Eggs on the Queen Excluder

    Yes they are flush with the top Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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    Eggs on the Queen Excluder

    Yes I use a frames excluder and one side is deeper. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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    Eggs on the Queen Excluder

    Thanks. I am using self spacing frames, so bee space should be right shouldn't it? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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    Eggs on the Queen Excluder

    Hi, I am only in my second year of beekeeping and when I opened my hive tonight and took off the super the underneath of the queen excluder was coved in larvae as was the top of the brood frames. Is this normal? Cheers Sam Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
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