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my first attempt at the rose method hive

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Joined: 16 May 2014
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Location: Grays, Essex, UK

Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 1:21 pm Post subject: my first attempt at the rose method hive

so Tuesday just gone was a busy day for me, I started off adding wax starter strips to some commercial supers that I was going to use for trying out the rose hive method, http://youtu.be/0loIRY0rDsM it was lucky that I did, as an hour later the chairman from our local bee club rung me, and asked if I would go an collect a swarm, of course I would so decided to take them straight over our woodland, and into the hive http://youtu.be/JhXOKrEZURA (when viewing this video, you need to rewind it, as its longer than the permitted 20 minutes) will be checking to see if they have settled in this coming weekend

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