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  1. DVD Must See

    Anyone interested, order the DVD, More Than Honey. It's beautiful to watch and really informative. Full the nth film bye a true film maker.
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  2. Agreement reached with sudzucker to distribute throughout uk mainland

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    I am pleased to announce an agreement with Sudzucker of Germany has been reached to market / distribute their products throughout the UK mainland. Sudzucker are the original manufacturer of sucrose based beefeeds and are the largest supplier throughout Europe.

    Their product range consists of-

    Apiinvert is a sucrose /fructose based inverted sugar syrup
    Supplied in bulk, 1300kg IBC, 28kg and 16kg cartons ...

    Updated 05-12-2013 at 03:43 PM by British.beefeeds

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  3. End of November ...

    ... and they're still bringing in pollen.

    First visit to my main apiary today for about 2 months. The bees were flying vigorously, maybe not such a surprise with the temperature somewhere near 11C. One colony was piling in the pale yellow pollen and I reckon it was coming from a rape field just under a km away which has a lot of charlock in flower. Given the hard frosts earlier this week that was a bit of a surprise. I've been a bit distracted of late and so today those needing a ...

    Updated 27-11-2013 at 08:49 PM by gavin

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  4. Queens still laying.

    I just checked a full colony, a nuc and a couple of apideas and all had fresh eggs in them.
    The colony is one I requeened a month ago.
    I accidentally knocked over the nuc last week so needed to check for eggs.
    Stores were good and lots of pollen in cells.
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  5. Another mated queen

    Found another queen laying in an apidea this afternoon.
    This was one which came from an emergency queen cell made by the bees in the apidea after they killed their queen for some reason in early September.
    It emerged 25 days ago so was cutting things fine.
    It actually looks ok for a queen from an apidea emergency cell, a wee bit small but perfectly acceptable.
    there are still a few drones about and I have been checking this apidea every couple of days since mid September. ...
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