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Dexter's shed Scout Bee
Joined: 16 May 2014 Posts: 307 Location: Grays, Essex, UK
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 1:21 pm Post subject: my first attempt at the rose method hive |
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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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