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With a screened board, the upper box is a separate entity nurse bees in the box below do not have access.

Probably sufficient stores contained within the combs plus the ( quite a considerable number of ) new foragers in the upper box. I split an upper brood box into mating nucs yesterday, it had been above a double screen board. A sizeable cluster gathered at the rear of the hive later on, where the...

Set up three Amm mating nucs, two with cells and the third with a newly emerged virgin from the incubator. Then replaced the stand under the oak tree before it collapsed which went much smoother than I expected. Stacked some blocks in front of the stand, moved the hive onto these, a double brood...

Often accompanied by the vacant stare when you are sorting out their mess and asking what on earth they were thinking.

Bank them in their cages, in a hive or hives, up in the supers will do, the bees will tend to them. Then I would make up some mating nucs and pop them into these with the tabs snapped off.

Broke down cells to singles in a couple of hives and removed two queens to nucs after finding charged cells. Set up Amm mating nucs and gave them some thin syrup. Next Monday will transfer some more cells. Had one colony today looks like it's been foraging tar, all around the frame lugs was...

Plywood.

They will be whatever she is Jeff.

No better time than during a heavy flow to just throw on a full box of foundations, they are usually drawn, filled and capped within a week.

I would not fancy their chances.

They have all the storage space they need while there is no brood.

Did you go into it to find out what is there now? Do you think you might have missed something?

Same here.

For the past two years I've used my Instantvap to treat my friend's apiary, he was so impressed he bought one this year. He also went for the compact as it was cheaper, it has all the other features so a no brainer really.

It's jet washers here.