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Making 5 frame Nucs, for 2020

you may remember a while back I made a couple of queen castles to use next year, to hopefully raise our own queens, if that is a success,...

so last week I removed the first lot of leysdown honey, everything went smoothly, apart from removing the bees from the actual box, we...

So this weekend gone was a hot one here on Sheppey, but I had planned on checking the bees at the new second out apiary, so went ahead...

S o yesterday I moved five hives from the allotments to the new 2nd out apiary, these were all swarms caught over the last ten days, one...

So I had a swarm to collect from Louise that was boxed up at the weekend, as I was driving back to the allotments, I had a call, a swarm...

so after collecting a swarm last week, it got more hetic, but in a good way, I recieved a message of a swarm in the next village, and...

added some sugar syrup to the new bees, changing the bait in waasp trap,

so yesterday I had a call from a friend, three swarms on his garage and did I want them, I jumped in the car, but only had two spare...

so my first inspection of the year, and I knew I wanted to do, some might think quite radical hive manipulatioons. Firstly the langstroth...