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The flanged nuts holding the bellows to the canister loosen after many years and there's nothing more irritating when one is lost. The size is 6-32 UNC and originally a Keps nut, an effective type of flanged nut that has attached to it a compressible serrated washer. Dadant now specify cheaper Nyloc nuts of the same spec. but a Nyloc is (supposed to be) a one-use nut so the end ...


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Selling honey

Hi. Ive harvested the honey last week and I have a surplus (about 50 jars). If I want to sell it what's the proces? If Im honest I have given the bees some syrup when there wasn't any food about, so I can't be 100% its "all natural" Also I extracted it in my kitchen, which is nice but never been inspected by anyone. Cheers


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Moving Hives

Moved hives have i made hard work of this ? I have moved four poly hives and one nuc to a new location today, propably about a mile from their old site as the bees fly.I am now going to leave them for a cpl weeks before moving them on to another site again propably a mile away where they will hopefully stay indefinatly.The weather has been cold here between 4/5 deg and lots of r...


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I'm in the north of Scotland, and am still waiting to do my OA trickle treatment. In hindsight I should have done it after the cold spell we had in Nov, as it was followed by a prolonged mild period where the bees probably will have had brood again. Then when it turned cold over the Christmas week I thought I'd get it done in the new year, but the cold snap is turning out to be ...


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