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  1. SireeDubs

    Advice: Help! bees found my stored supers!

    Sorry, think I must’ve misunderstood. I’d hoped they’d have all flown out by midnight and gone back to their hive (well 1am when I checked) but there were still lots of bees in the stored supers. Anyway, crisis now averted. For now anyway. The fine mist by the garage had stopped any more...
  2. SireeDubs

    Advice: Help! bees found my stored supers!

    Thanks all... The family (esp teenage son) have been debriefed and progress is being made. Supers will go back on, and have a very fine mist hose rigged by garage door which appears to be deterring any new visitors. :thanks:
  3. SireeDubs

    Advice: Help! bees found my stored supers!

    Yup, did that, thinking they’d all leg it home for the night. Not so apparently! Bees everywhere!
  4. SireeDubs

    Advice: Help! bees found my stored supers!

    I have a few wet supers stored at the back of my garage. The access door is always shut and the supers sealed up. However, a member of the family who will remain nameless, not only removed the top of the super pile (so it was open) and then left the garage door wide open. I now have 1000s of...
  5. SireeDubs

    Wasp protection and returning bees...

    Waspbane, waspbane, waspbane. Lost a colony to wasps 4 years ago. Am in the countryside and wasps common. Used waspbane every year since then and they might be expensive, but nothing comes close for effectiveness. No marketing hype, follow instructions (or tips of those above concerning...
  6. SireeDubs

    Price

    :iagree:
  7. SireeDubs

    Labelling as 'wildflower' - permitted?

    I like it... :winner1st: Not used to having so much that I can sell... Husband desperately hoping it'll pay for itself one day. :rofl:
  8. SireeDubs

    Labelling as 'wildflower' - permitted?

    Hmm, yes. Think I'm probably safer sticking to 'Devon flower honey'. Rather meaningless, I know, but I'll mull it over. Thanks.
  9. SireeDubs

    Labelling as 'wildflower' - permitted?

    Am in the process of designing some labels for this year's honey. I have a reasonable amount and my local shop is interested, which is great. I've looked at all the guidance for labelling from food standards etc, so I'm happy with what I need to include. But can I call my honey 'wildflower'...
  10. SireeDubs

    Full super: remove or leave?

    :thanks: ...for all the replies. I've left the super on as just seemed logical, and have not (yet!) run out of boxes. After a completely dire year last year, I'm just delighted to be getting anything (fingers crossed!). Has been slow start since spring, haven't seen so much bramble so late...
  11. SireeDubs

    New Queen - when to inspect

    :iagree: (would be incredibly stupid not to) As a fairly new beekeepers (4 years), I was in this position of waiting for a new queen. I knew there was a good qc and had calculated when it would emerge. I was desperate to see what was going on, despite the advice I was given (leave alone 3 weeks...
  12. SireeDubs

    Full super: remove or leave?

    I have a full, capped super (with two close behind) from my 3 colonies. Hurrah! Remove it or leave it (have added empty super)? Remove: storage is tricky, as bees live in my garden and would end up with house/garage/shed full of robbers. Also, I'd rather not extract just one, as it seems more...
  13. SireeDubs

    What to do with stragglers after uniting?

    Thanks all. All safely in parent colony now. Put them on a board in front of hive and they seemed to get in. Uniting also seems to have gone smoothly. Fingers crossed for a better season than last year!
  14. SireeDubs

    What to do with stragglers after uniting?

    Hello all, Last night, I united two colonies with no problems (I hope!). Anyway, there were a few stragglers on the site of the old colony (q-), so I put a BB there to collect them. There are enough of them for me to want to add to the united hive, but how best to do it? Don't really want to...
  15. SireeDubs

    Swarms

    :iagree:
  16. SireeDubs

    Queen marking - silly question time.

    There'll be some far more experienced beeks along soon, I'm sure, but in the meantime... Don't mark with this years... If it's a prime swarm, you can assume it's left its parent colony with their queen. That queen will be (usually) at least last year's, or older (no way to accurately tell)...
  17. SireeDubs

    Oxalic treatment on brood break

    How long would you leave supers off a colony after an OA treatment? Is it the same whether trickle or vaporisation... Assuming the drop is most considerable in first week, then would it be safe to replace or sooner?
  18. SireeDubs

    Oxalic treatment on brood break

    Thanks for advice all. Just checked tray. It's been in 3 days and I can see just one mite so far, so hopefully no treatment needed yet... Always useful to have the info though. :thanks:
  19. SireeDubs

    Oxalic treatment on brood break

    Have got tray in to have a look (and will use the Beebase varroa calculator to assess). Only want to treat if necessary, and so after some opinions in advance. Thanks, T
  20. SireeDubs

    Oxalic treatment on brood break

    One of my colonies has superseded their queen (found old queen - from swarm last year - dead, and subsequent queen cell should've hatched about now). I've always been told to treat a swarm with Oxalic, as in very early days all mites are phoretic. Following that logic, and after monitoring...
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