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Has anyone experience with Thorne's plastic drop-in feeders for national hives?

Had some bad weather recently and decided to give my expanding nuc a feed in the evening in order to help draw out new foundation in the super above. But the following morning there were loads of them drowned - thought maybe I had filled the feeder too much so left it on. The next morning same...

There is much chat at the moment about overwintering nucs and types of nuc boxes. Why does overwintering of nucs happen? Where are these nucs coming from at this time or how are they created? I thought any weak colony should be combined with another. You can probably tell I am a real newbie!

Over the last few days our weather here has dramatically changed. Very heavy and repeated showers and windy - guess same as most folk getting. But my brave little darlings still come in with pollen between showers. Does this mean that foragers caught out in one of the downpours drown/die or can...

I am in a quandary here. can anyone advise please. My one nuc is expanding nicely, plenty of sealed brood, larvae and eggs. 3 frames of foundation yet to draw out. My question is should I go for more brood in a super ie leave off excluder with a view to building up a stronger colony for...

It's that time of year again - spraying bracken with Asulox. I have a neighbour spraying tomorrow with helicopter very close to my hives - 150 metres with a wind blowing towards hives. Can anyone tell me if Asulox is a danger to bees. It is a systemic planticide.

Can anyone tell me what the advantages are of manley super frames over ordinary ones? I have both types ready to super over a nuc.

I got my first nuc from a local beekeeper some 8 weeks ago with capped queen cell. An anxious 8 weeks waiting to verify whether queenie hatched and performing. Well she is, and very nicely as well - good girl! They all in national brood box and guzzling plenty of syrup from feeder. Capped...