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I’ve been asked to sort out a wild hive for an elderly man a few miles from me It’s a 2 year old caught swarm in an old hive on double brood box no frames that he just keeps for pollination of his fruit trees I’ve no desire to go through the brood boxes as they will just have wild comb but I...

I have some 80lbs honey at 20% have had in a sealed container in buckets with a dehumidifier running for 24 hours not a drop of moisture pulled out in 24 hours any suggestions thanks

Iv just purchased my first refractometer and checked the honey iv extracted this year The Spring honey came in just below 16 and the summer one exactly 16 My questions are does the quality of honey increase with a reduction in water content? Would there be a noticeable taste difference between a...

I have a full super of capped heather honey Problem is it's on wired foundation Any suggestions on how to use it apart from leaving on as winter stores Thanks

Have a colony which needs an A/S within next 2 days Can you unite the Q- half straight onto a Q+colony headed by a this years queen after knocking down all queen cells without too many implications Ghanks

I have 4 colonies from swarms a few weeks ago in 6 frame polynuc s with brood extensions All queens are laying and expanding well Choice I have is to super up the nucs and run the colonies on or transfer into full national hives Aside from the inspection ease of the full size hive is there any...

Fella asked me if I wanted to put a hive on his 30 acre patch of field beans Field is 10 miles away from m apiary Is the possible harvest from this size field worth the effort of moving the hive/s Thanks

Due to the 50% success rate of the Pagden Im planning on using the modified Wally this year if my demaree efforts fail Im wondering what is the advantage of re uniting the laying queen back into the flying bees hive,why not knock down the queen cells,add this to original colony and just dump the...

Iv got some overwintered nucs to spare All are in Paynes 6 frame nucs some with one and some with 2 supers Given the cost of the box,super and frames is 80ish euro,what price for the bees? Thanks

Plan on using some 6 frame poly nucs as bait hives this year. Will be adding a super to increase the size. Should the old comb frame be placed on the brood level or on the super level Thanks

Iv had some brood frames invaded by moths,the damage on one is a 3 inch patch in middle of frame Will bees fill this void with new comb or will they just seal the edges and leave the hole as is thanks

What kind of drop should/could i expect to see after one dose of vaporised oxalic acid in january?[previously 3 doses 5 days apart in late oct early nov.] What levels would suggest a second dose is required? thanks

Can we expect a higher than normal percentage of winter losses this year due mainly to poorly mated queens during July and August

Background is 3 hives on double brood 2 are single nationals No honey to extract in August so I decided to leave until last week We got a spell of excellent weather late august into september so on Monday 8th I extracted 25lb They have still been packing it in over the week so yesterday I...

I live within 200m of 10 very large lime trees in flower I have one colony that was a/s 4 weeks ago now on double brood with 7/8 frames drawn and being laid up in both bb.Lots of bias and lots of new bees just emerged They had 3 partially filled supers guessing 40/50 lb weight when I a/sd,But as...

According to my local beekeepers association website(I'm not a member)the swarming season around here is June Judging be the swarms lost and collected with forum members I imagine ye are a month ahead of us(Ireland) Have you fount that this year swarming in your area is approx the same as the...

This is a pic of a hive iv just completed Based loosely on a dartington and a combo hive It's a double national horizontal that I can use as a double brood single or as a split two hive Total cost of ceder 25€ http://imgur.com/OEefnhL Top bar completed last week http://imgur.com/sn4g6u7

Winter set up super full of thymol treated syrup and ivy honey,super left over brood box which was dummied down and insulated to 7 frames First inspection today Super was largely untouched though there was a small patch of brood on centre frame Brood box was pretty well cleared out of stores...