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Thanks, good to know

Why? Even though the storage is new over summer?

The hive are on double brood

OA was applied last winter and 2x formic pro this year due to a very high V count, the brood box was placed above the QE. Some of the frames I am able to extract but your thoughts please on extracting some frames from last year that had OA, there has been no brood in these frames.

Thank you for your help

With wet supers sterilisation I have used acetic acid in the past, your thoughts on freezing please?

Prior to extracting I did do the shake test this year & have done the same previous years but measured after as a new refractometer arrived to find the honey was over 22%, I gave the honey a stir with all coming out at 18%. At this stage I am not 100% sure my refractometer was set correctly...

Thanks for all the valuable advice

Many thanks for all the invaluable advice, I will nadir a balsam super, with this hive it will have to be chemical based & OA in winter

Thank you for your feedback will read through later but I did place 2 supers back on last week.

In a quandary and would appreciate some advice please , I just placed the wet supers on 2 hives for a day and half and the bees have already starting filling and capping, one hive on double brood the other on single, the single is pretty full with one super that I left for them for winter (not...

They do expand! But having to part with some for personal reasons, sell at what you are happy to sell at.

They can be delivered within 15 miles or arrangements can be made for the hive to be viewed.

Thanks, It was not purchased through tbornes but wish I had, really do need help with it, I suspect it is the control box but am not sure if we can check it inside, are they easy to replace ? Or are we able to open the box to check the wiring, struggling to find instructions as I only have a 3...