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I too had that problem until I bought a larger jacket. We are both in the territory of " middle age spread" 😁. It is so convenient for...

I just bung them in my home made solar wax melter and leave them to it. Done 3 loads over last 3 days. No energy costs and only my time...

I’m the opposite. Can’t spot a queen easily in a picture. Much easier to see her when i’m not actually looking for her.

I used to have hives on an allotment, but had no problem. I would find a different site for yours though. Put them on the allotment and...

Checked the hive that I thought was a goner 3 weeks ago. At that time just a couple of handfuls of bees and a queen, but no brood. I...

You shook the bees into the box at the new site. At the old site you had one frame of brood plus an open queen cell. The flying bees...

I empathise with Gregior. I have had to do this too. It was a last resort. The bees were super horrid over a long period and in a Warre...

I find it great for delaying, even preventing, swarming

Swarms will settle anywhere that suits them. Rather than anecdotal evidence, Tom Seeley actually did some scientific experiments to...

I too put on the frame the year when it was made up. Rarely does that relate to when it's condition tells me it needs pulling

I hold the empty frame up to the sun and if I can't see light through it I bin it.

Imv the least expensive and simplest vape route is a vape pan, a small lithium battery and a phone /watch as a timer . The...

Lots of white specks of varroa poo round the lips of empty cells. I would say that your treatment was not effective. It is not...

I would put a second BB on ( under the current one, as HM works downwards), and add a super. My bees love double BB. Nothing to fear...

Have taken over as Apiary manager in my new home in Devon. Only 3 colonies. I took the opportunity of a good weather window to do a...