Recent content by jimmiestan

That's all good advice and as with all your posts thankfully not at all patronising, thanks James !

...... we found this feller quite useful and he makes easily followed videos

We've been feeding fondant for a few weeks now here in Cromarty as they turned up their noses at our home made syrup [maybe it was due to the plastic milk bottles its kept in? -- we've now got ambrosia syrup from excellent local supplier near Inverness -- haven't syrupped them yet though as...

I'd say "No"

Could one reduce the "weak" BB to nuc size using alu taped xtratherm as thick as possible to leave maybe 6 frames well insulated for the winter? Easier to look after with fondant etc than a nuc [although our bee-delivery nucs only seem to be made of correx!]

Swarm in October?

Nobody has yet mentioned the lack of a semi-colon.

That's good advice, thanks. We have apivar strips in just now, for another week or so, and will vape [per David Evans the shark] early December. Unless I'm as confused as I often am......

May I ask please why are some keepers vaping when colonies are presumably with brood? We still have plenty brood "up here".

Thanks -- we might try this, the marked Q is a 2022 lady so she should be ok. Not a great layer though, but hard to criticise her with the summer we've had.

I'm wondering, twistytrees, what happened with this situation as we have a similar one here in Cromarty, and we have lots of 50mmm xtratherm insulation so could effectively make up a poly nuc withing a hive...............

www.varroaresistant.uk -- excellent site, thank you!

So maybe no honey/residue should be left out??

I'd also be pretty sure they don't do that ! We've wrapped supers up, frozen them for 48 hours, boxed for the winter.....but did leave some filters/pans with residue a good 40 metres away from the hives -- near a wasp-attracting plum tree........cleaned up nicely ready for dishwasher. btw our...

Our local [Dingwall] assoc had a v good talk by a bee diseases inspector a few weeks ago. Re. extracted, wet super frames, "don't leave them out and only feed back to the hive from whence they came". [I find that a shame really but makes sense re. foulbroods]