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Didn't seem right to me, I didn't forward it on, not enough to go on

posts deleted which referred to other posts of which original remains - nothing nasty

again, this rewriting of history to seemingly protect one of our elder members - does he have pictures?????

Well, you will lose al the genetics from your original dark strain of bees - all new bees from new queen will be a mix of the yellow bee genetics and whoever she mates with. So basically, yes it will.

Now see, I don't clip mine because I have them in my garden with neighbours around. My reasoning is that there will be more local disturbance by the bees milling about longer and closer because the Queen isn't around which will disturb the neighbours more; whereas if the Q can fly they will go...

He's not talking about Queens mating across types as far as I can see but about introducing eggs to raise a new queen- that won't cause the type of next generation nasty hybrids you are referring to, just a new queen

yes

That's the idea, mine still built swarm cells in the bottom box - little bleeders!

standard beekeepers sequence - 2 hives year 1, 4 hives year 2, 8 hives year 3 working for me Iol l must unite, l must!

I had exactly the same situation yesterday, demareed, 3 weeks ago, no brood in top box, but had swarm cells in bottom, even though brood only on 3 frames and 4/5 undrawn frames, hey-ho. So removed demaree'd box from top and used stores from that and Q from bottom to do an AS, nuc method, seemed...

oh yeah, had forgotten about that!

thanks , I was going to go to iplayer and get the details but you've saved me watching that drivel again ta :)

no worries :)

wire with wooden frame don't use plastic - sags & sticks don't use zinc - sharp edges - and sags and sticks

I used 2 supers. It is quite high but actually the top box is at quite a nice height to inspect. I can see that it could become quite hard work to do, luckily i'm still fairly flexible with some upper body strength!

I was looking at sending some off for analysis rather than doing it myself

One of the few interesting sections on Martha's program (don't get me started on the manuka segment!) was the pollen analysis she had done. It would be interesting to find out what makes up my honey. Has anyone ever had it done and has an idea of cost? any contact details for people/labs who do...

I do have an eke with an entrance cut out, I could use that, sometimes the answer is staring you in the face, literally in this case because it's currently below the top brood for exactly that purpose!! I also like the idea of using for later splits, I'm sure there will be some! thanks :)

Demaree'd one of my hives 3 weeks ago so all brood will have emerged by this weekend. I know from the last inspection that they have started storing honey. So, what do with them; extraction is problematic as they're 14 x 12. My initial thought was to place under new brood box and bruise the...

emerged Eggs hatch, adult bees emerge :)