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Welcome, hope you are near some of Bolton's huge drifts of balsam! Will you paint all your supers "White"?

Good luck , let us know how you get, on stay :coolgleamA:

Our weather seems to be great for Himalayan Balsam! hope your girls have access to some, going great guns at the moment.

:welcome:Hi, welcome and good luck,:iagree:

Yeah, i thought that too, ( see post...;) )

Always one for belt and braces, I used an eke and a Th0rn.. clearer, left them to their own devices overnigh, little darlin's started a beautiful leaf shaped comb from underside of clearer, too much space and too long methinks.:rolleyes:

I like Caddon Hives, nice workmanship, good gear, good customer service.

One thing I'd warn of is not to make Cheese and bread/beer at the sametime. The yeasts & bacteria seem to love getting into the wrong substrate, great for them, not so hot for us!

First harvest can't be beaten for sheer excitement, how did it go? Good luck and welcome

Blood worms? Chironomidae

Me too, have emailed Lesley to say how much I enjoyed it, came home, complete change & thorough scrub up, out and inspected my hive everything ticketyboo!

Hi and Welcome, putting the ground work in is the way to go, keep on learning, it never really stops, enjoy!

Hi Jimmys Mum, this happened to me last month "After finding my hive Q- and 4/2 sealed Queen cells on 2 different frames on my 1st inspection, 14/4, I returned and set up a “nuc” hoping to do a split, I returned 15/4 and found that “The Game of Thr@nes” had been played out. One hatched Q cell...

Hi From Bolton and welcome to the the forum

My boys have been flying for more a than week now, up and away looking for the ladies, that's sunny Bolton for you:sunning:

I love Dubrovnik, amongst the most beautiful places in the world IMHO, made my heart sing. I wasn't into beekeeping then, but will be sure to have a good look next time!

Spot on reply, WILCO!

After finding my hive Q- and 4/2 sealed Queen cells on 2 different frames on my 1st inspection, 14/4, I returned and set up a “nuc” hoping to do a split, I returned 15/4 and found that “The Game of Thr@nes” had been played out. One hatched Q cell, all others being recycled by the girls, I shut...

(In Pythonesque mock French accent..."I already got one"

To digress, my Grandad on my Mum's side was a pattern-maker in the shipyards, making casting blanks to machined tolerances in hardwood. That was him of course not me, I claim no such skill, but I still have a few of his bespoke tools designed and made to carve and cut particular items. They're...