June 2013 archive

Strength to strength

The site has now clocked up well over 100,000 page views and well over 5000 visitors with 3500 feeds taken up, which to my mind is indicative of success. 🙂   Many thanks to everyone who has assisted me in getting to where we are, and I look forward to increasing the video content amongst …

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Incompatible hives disaster

For changing from one hive type to another make a board to fit the biggest unit, cut a hole in it to match the internal dimensions of the smaller one and put them in the order you want.    Say you are moving from National to Langstroth, the adaptor board made from the cheapest sheet …

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Queen in supers disaster

Easy one this, put the brood box on top of the supers, change out the excluder if you have suspicions and leave it OUT until the queen is back in the Brood Box which she will be after a week for two good reasons, the brood will attract her and queens love to be up, …

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