I've bought a hive

[onymee]

The price seems very good and it's better made than the plywood fornes one by the looks of it.I'm very excited. Now to buy bee lures off ebay.I shall have to make do with my waterproof boilersuit and some marigold gloves until I can afford a bee suit as there are other bits I'll need first like smoker,veil and some other gubbins. It's a Cornish top bar hive, complete and not flat packed. From Hevva belle honey bees in Cornwall. It was only £126. I can hardly wait.

 

[dpearce4]

dont bother with the lures. use lemongrass oil much cheaper 2 or 3 drips inside the hive ontop of the frames will draw in some scouts and then they will call the swarm if they are happy. it does work.

 

[onymee]

dont bother with the lures. use lemongrass oil much cheaper 2 or 3 drips inside the hive ontop of the frames will draw in some scouts and then they will call the swarm if they are happy. it does work.

poo I just bought some. They have pheremones in . I guess it's a bee equivalent of my fluttering eyebrows.

 

[Luminos]

I tried the pheromones stuff and it didn't work.
So I tried the lemongrass and that didn't work either.
I reckon you're onto a winner with the eyebrows...

 

[onymee]

I tried the pheromones stuff and it didn't work.
So I tried the lemongrass and that didn't work either.
I reckon you're onto a winner with the eyebrows...

they've never failed me

 

[beebopalula]

I have heard they are good hives (never seen one though). He also sells cheap bee suits I understand. Is it a 3' or a 4'?

 

[blackie]

lemon grass worked for me last year but may of been beginers luck

 

[Luminos]

No beekeepers near me, so it was a no-brainer - didn't know that at the time

 

[onymee]

I have heard they are good hives (never seen one though). He also sells cheap bee suits I understand. Is it a 3' or a 4'?

neither. It's a metre lol. 39 inches. Will take some photos and give an opinion once it arrives. Their bee suits also seem very reasonable.

 

[onymee]

lemon grass worked for me last year but may of been beginers luck

may 'have'. Sorry, I'm a bit OCD about grammar :/

 

[SixFooter]

may 'have'. Sorry, I'm a bit OCD about grammar :/

I thought "Could of", "may of" etc was a Manchester thing. Culprit this time is from Kent !
I work for a software company in Manchester and one of our user manuals has this mistake in it. Needless to say, I have pointed it out a few times, but either the writer/Manaegment do not think I am correct or they think it doesn't matter. I am and it does !

 

[SixFooter]

Beg or borrow some old black brood comb. You only need a small piece and it will work much better than a lure in my experience.

Having put that, my experience is not the same as established advice which is to use a swarm lure.

Wouldnt hurt to use both

 

[onymee]

I thought "Could of", "may of" etc was a Manchester thing. Culprit this time is from Kent !
I work for a software company in Manchester and one of our user manuals has this mistake in it. Needless to say, I have pointed it out a few times, but either the writer/Manaegment do not think I am correct or they think it doesn't matter. I am and it does !

I always ask if people would ask "of you got a...." or "of you done that yet". It drives me as wild as 'my bad' (your bad what?)

 

[beekeeping4you]

I tried the pheromones stuff and it didn't work.
So I tried the lemongrass and that didn't work either.
I reckon you're onto a winner with the eyebrows...

Hi Onymee,
We tried over the years:

"Charme d'abeille" (french traditional) - did not work
"Duus - Schwarmlockmittel" (German traditional) - did not work!
"Synthetic Pheromone" (??? not traditional) - always, always worked!

O.K., it only can work with enough colonies not to far away from your swarm trap ready to swarm and sending out scout bees...
We offer them 6-frame boxes with a single frame of fresh foundation in the center of the box to cluster on (never with "old" brood frames).
In 2012 season one of our pheromone boxes caught four swarms in a row with always the same plastic tube in the hive. Keep the tubes in the freezer after they have done their job and they can be reused next year no problem, still attracting scouts...

(We never tried this with TBHs, and in our part of Ireland we never heard of someone who successfully lured a swarm into a TBH)

All the best!
Reiner

 

[onymee]

Hi Onymee,
We tried over the years:

"Charme d'abeille" (french traditional) - did not work
"Duus - Schwarmlockmittel" (German traditional) - did not work!
"Synthetic Pheromone" (??? not traditional) - always, always worked!

O.K., it only can work with enough colonies not to far away from your swarm trap ready to swarm and sending out scout bees...
We offer them 6-frame boxes with a single frame of fresh foundation in the center of the box to cluster on (never with "old" brood frames).
In 2012 season one of our pheromone boxes caught four swarms in a row with always the same plastic tube in the hive. Keep the tubes in the freezer after they have done their job and they can be reused next year no problem, still attracting scouts...

(We never tried this with TBHs, and in our part of Ireland we never heard of someone who successfully lured a swarm into a TBH)

All the best!
Reiner

Well watch this space. I can only give it a go and if it doesn't work, I can get a swarm off a beekeeper but I do like to try things first. I have the synthetic pheromone one coming in the post.

 

[susbees]

(We never tried this with TBHs, and in our part of Ireland we never heard of someone who successfully lured a swarm into a TBH)

We never lure anyone else's bees into our bait hives, it's geographical. However, four tbh being put out to grass this season as bait hives. If they fail as that I'll be planting herbs in them in 2014

 

[onymee]

We never lure anyone else's bees into our bait hives, it's geographical. However, four tbh being put out to grass this season as bait hives. If they fail as that I'll be planting herbs in them in 2014

If my hive fails to attract 'lost' bees, I shall buy a nuc hive and give that a go, or just ask a beekeeper for a caught swarm.

 

[victor meldrew]

We never lure anyone else's bees into our bait hives, it's geographical. However, four tbh being put out to grass this season as bait hives. If they fail as that I'll be planting herbs in them in 2014

I have over the years had dozens of swarms from other people's bees occupy empty hives in my apiary :
Never given it another thought. Bees are bees, any immigrants legal or otherwise are more than welcome
VM


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[Drew]

<Picky, Picky, Picky Mode>

may 'have'. Sorry, I'm a bit OCD about grammar :/

Is "may 'have'" a complete sentence? Should it have an initial capital? If it is or isn't did your OCD fail you?

ps Should there be a full stop after grammar?

I thought "Could of", "may of" etc was a Manchester thing. Culprit this time is from Kent !
I work for a software company in Manchester and one of our user manuals has this mistake in it. Needless to say, I have pointed it out a few times, but either the writer/Manaegment do not think I am correct or they think it doesn't matter. I am and it does !

Presumably spelling doesn't matter though?

</Picky, Picky, Picky Mode>

 

[bee ginnner]

may 'have'. Sorry, I'm a bit OCD about grammar :/

well you are gonna ave e ball ere, congrats on ure new full time job