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Can anyone recommend a good make of stainless steel settling tank either 35 or 50 kg. would prefer a ss valve . Thanks

Heads up - Makro are selling 15 x 1kg bags of T&L sugar for 6.49

Please remember, if overwintering or keeping bees in a polynuc with the circular entrance discs, to secure in the correct position required with a drawing pin to ensure that it does not move. Unfortunately I didn't and a full box of overwintered bees got confined to quarters for 5 or six days...

Harvested in August, treated with Maqs and then before starting winter feeding, placed the wet supers above a feeder board for the bees to clean out. To my surprise, instead of emptying them, about four hives have partly filled and capped the supers. I am going away for a few weeks so really...

I have looked at past threads but can't see the answer. when re-uniting an AS, does the hive that is moved (abt 1.5m) back to the original site have a problem with bees returning to "yesterday's" position. Also, if uniting two Q+ colonies (removing the lower Q) with Q+ colony on top, I assume...

Trying to decide on jar size for wedding favours. Can anyone tell me how many oz in a 45 or 55 ml hex jar plse?

I overwintered on double brood due to a late unite (queenless in Early Oct).All seems well after its inspection last week with a surprising amount of sealed stores left over. I am thinking of reducing back to single brood but am concerned that if I super (soon) that they will move up the stores...

I used oxalic acid on my hives last winter with quite astounding results and plan to do again. The remaining contents of last years bottle of ------ Oxalic is stored in a garage cupboard and has not shown any signs of discolouration. Might it still be ok to use or might it have lost its efficacy.

United a Q- colony with a Q+ colony two weeks ago with newspaper and queen excluder with Q- on top. The unite was a success but I am not sure how to proceed, given that I would rather overwinter as a single broodbox. Both boxes have lots of bees and can't fathom out the best way to reducee down...

Bottled some honey today which after extraction has been double filtered and left to stand to eradicate any bubbles. Looks fine in jars apart from the odd jar which appears to have a small , what I can only describe as whisp of something within - looks like a small cloud. Any suggestions please...

Honey extracted and wet supers fed back but brood box absolutely bereft of stores. Really want to start Apigard treatment but I think they need feeding first. Can I feed and Apigard at the same time?.

What is the latest, but still acceptable, Best Before Date to put on honey labels?

Bought some old, but little used, kit which includes National hives with solid floors. Does anyone still use them or has everyone moved to open mesh floors?.

I have been offered some kit, mainly two Th***es Nationals, about 13 years old (plastic runners) but only used for one season and a number of supers. I had a look at them but they are top beespace and all my equipment is bottom beespace. I could use them as two stand alone hives but really want...

Firstly..Yes, i have read previous threads and posts but not sure that they answer my question. I performed an A/S and then subsequently had a swarm from one part which i caught. I currently have from left to right the A/S hive in the original position with one super on but no Queen. In the...

When I started beekeeping three years ago, my wife asked "how much time will it take up" as we lead pretty busy lives and she could see that there was little time for a new hobby. My answer at the time was "about 1 hour a week" on the basis that I wouldn't have more than three hives. Three weeks...

Has anyone tried a M***SEMORE budget hive?. I have a few T****es and wondered if they are the same quality? (which to be honest, so far have been quite acceptable.)

Not 100 pct sure but there are bees flying between the two A/S hives that I performed 10 days ago. I assume that the Q+ hive is robbing the Q- hive which is being fed at the moment. Is there anything that i can do or must I wait until the virgin Q gets mated and then either move one away or...

I did tonight and ended up in an ambulance trip to the hospital. Thankfully no more than severe reaction to a number of stings but must admit it was not to be recommended. Had just taken a quick look at one hive to check for swarm cells and they were fine but the other hive were not so...

I envisage doing an A/S on a colony soon with the intention (due in part to three colonies and two spare hives) to do so into a polynuc and then recombine. Ordinarily, if doing an A/S into a spare wooden box, would the "swarmed" part get the existing super and should I expect problems if...