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Eurovision what a let down 2008 was a vintage year check these fab entries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t36CC9eNuVc...

Listening to prog rock should remove the mites all right. Apparently Jethro Tull works better than Oxalic.

Never weighed up swarming preferences ! Had a swarm in a collection of spare floors , shook them onto a flagstone, placed a 5 frame nuc on the flag...

here's a cheery link from Yes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDigs6UMVjY

If that's a possible option I choose apple pie

Can you choose meringue, or apple pie and custard? :)

Or if you are happy to move it more than 3 miles away it will reorientate again after you move it.

Apideas positioned without shelter from the sun give endless trouble, usually by the bees skeddaling. On a few occasions in the past a tiny colony...

Absconding then. Orientation flights start about day 4 or 5 and the earliest mating flight will be about day 8 from emergence, usually a bit later....

If you wish to relocate the swarm then yes - but if it is in or close to a position you wish to leave it in (and the box is a normal hive) then no.

NOt heard anything down here, I'm not taking that to be a good sign.

Try and place your trap at height, south facing and the most effective lure is a frame of older drawn brood comb. Good Luck!

She emerged Friday, so too early for a mating flight? Just a practice flight gone wrong, or the bees absconding because too hot? Luckily the...

Thanks DR. Anyone got a link to the full paper. I have read a few things by Amro Zayed and he has published some good papers, especially about...

Hi Derek But Apideas are mating nucs for a cupful of bees and a queen. About 500 bees. The insulation is not the problem here - rather the...

Hi chris This is about bees not the varroa but quite good read http://zayedlab.apps01.yorku.ca/wordpress/?p=650

When bees went down my chimney one year I gave them a lovely hive nearby to lure them out After the swarm lure (thornes ) was added they still...

May i suggest insulation and lots of it. A small hive needs a dramatically increased amount of insulation from both heat gain and heat loss. This...

Thanks for the advice, I will consider the lemongrass oil option. I am just back from the allotment where I saw more honey bees, so things are...

Yes, but that is not swarming, it is either mating flight gone wrong or absconding. You have to get exactly the right amount of bees in an apidea...

I think when I tried it I had interest but nothing moved in. Lemongrass oil is cheaper in the long run and seems just as good to me. Sent from my...

I've tried all sorts of things. Do as Gavin suggests, but the main thing is putting the hive in the right spot.Once you've taken a swarm in that...

If there are honeybees in the garden then there are colonies within a couple of miles. Always worth a try in that case. Help the chances with a...

Lol! 'fraid it will have to be that murderin injun Tonto though frankly I wouldn't trust him to load a fridge There's hardly a buffalo or horse...

Yes, I did do that, held the apidea up to the remaining bees on the branch, and then scooped the rest up with my fingers. I think maybe I filled the...

This happens quite often, usually when the virgin is taking a mating flight. If you hold the apidea up to the cluster for a couple of minutes they...