I have three legged extractor with castors... it does hardly vibrate...(I ignore the spelling politzei :-)
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Being associated with the drinks industry we get booze related notices sometimes.....your reply reminded me of this !
http://tamworthdistilling.com/spirit...h-eau-de-musc/
Charming!
I'm "associated with the drinks industry" .... but only on Friday and Saturday nights ... hic!
What a filthy afternoon. Raining hard in St Andrews and a few peals of thunder. I have 14 wet supers to return to colonies and I've forgotten my welly boots. D'oh!
An article in the American Bee Journal is quoting colony losses in the USA at around 40% in the last year.
https://mailchi.mp/dadant.com/abj-ex...-the-last-year
Lovely day here yesterday, some nectar finally visible in hives and the queen I've got in an Apidea had the mating sign visible - a first for me!
Hurrah. All three of my hives I had given up on have laying queens!! One was from a split I did in that last week of April.
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Hi RDMW
Did the queen in the nuc that you thought had laying workers come good in the end or did the bees replace her. I’ve only managed two splits so far due to the weather and colony strengths. It could be August before the queens are mated and laying. I’m off to try a few more splits today in our cool windy weather.
Hello Lindsay
I ended up shaking out the laying worker nuc and most of the workers found homes in other hives. I was not sure what else to do. It was definitely a laying worker. Lots of drone brood in random pattern. And several eggs per cell on the walls.
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Looking good at the moment.
Of the Four Nucs bought in, the first of the combined brood Nationals (came in on nationals, want half on 14x12 so split half the nucs by transferring the brood into the other) is drawing comb in supers and packing in the nectar. the later Colony is thinking about it but is three weeks behind brood wise. Might be getting ahead of myself, but I like to start them out on Standard spacing and move to wide spacing as the comb gets drawn and the super filled, so contemplating getting another super + frames out of storage to start moving things around.
The 14x12 Nucs where I used one frame of brood + queen are now coming along nicely. Don't think they'll get into full sized hives this year, but they're strong enough, drawing comb nicely, building up and also packing in the stores.