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@@spinks11BMW no in Brittany France.

Hi, not using them at the moment. Hopefully will get them filled again next year. Finding the ideal place difficult at the moment. Would consider building a bee house just for them. But that’s a while off. Regards

@@628DirtRooster man that’s tickled me!!! 🤣🤣🤣😂☺️

@@keithsteele5580 err not the hives, just the hive stands! Hives all in good condition! This is reality beekeeping. This is what happens in normal beekeeping.

@@gwenyngruffydd been and resupered since. All looking good. 👍

@@richardnoel3141 your hives looked great!!

Incredibly deep rich and heavy overpowering smell.

Good luck! Hope you get some good honey

sure you can get it exported?

Can be overpowering if nothing else mixed in with it, luckily we have bramble here which really mellows it to a great flavour

As usual nobody wants to help.. only pretty words. If there is an excluder.. bees will move uncapped but not capped honey from the nest. You can scratch the cappings with your hive tool to make them move it or use it. If that is a strong flow (I assume you have 2 boxes) you should get a super anyways. But you should extract what you can and give back the empty frames if that's the only way to make space. And be fast about it. There's too many questions about it. Excluder ? Boxes? How strong is the flow? and the hive strength.. are they all old bees...

@@researcherAmateur Hey thanks for the reply! Yeah really strong hive, a little less right now due to the brood break from being queenless for a week. I have two brood boxes and 4 supers on. 2 are completely filled, 3rd is semi filled and the 4th needs to be drawn out still. I do have an excluded on and a lot of the honey I saw was not capped. That was 3 days ago though but she should just be getting out of the queen cage today, so hopefully her pheromones that were hopefully accepted a day ago signalled the hive that she’s there and they can resume putting honey in the supers, not brood comb.

Sorry for not replying sooner, yes they should move honey out of the brood nest in to the supers. On numerous occasions I’ve seen colonies completely honey bound after swarming. As soon as a new queen is in there, by whatever means they will make space for her to lay. Good question

@@curtislesann2948 yes, you're not in a bad situation with that hive. Richard is right. The bees will remove the honey to make space. I bet they started as soon they felt the pheromone. They get confused without it but with the queen back they organize their work...

@@richardnoel3141 thanks for the reply! Yeah because I’m afraid if they don’t remove the honey, they’re going to swarm again haha it’s +35C here in Canada so it won’t take too long for them to dry out that honey, so hopefully they’ve got a move on with rearranging the honey in to the correct box

Thanks, you too!

@@troytyrrell4333 yes sure! Starting splits next week.

Thank you

Sweet chestnut

Yes all sweet chestnut, horse chestnut is really a may flowering tree here. Always finished by June

Hoping so, thank you

@@44birdie44 your may be thinking of horse chestnut? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus_hippocastanum This is sweet chestnut 🌰 Castanea Sativa

@richardnoel3141 ah that's what it is. The horse chestnut hasn't been in flower since May/early June. Not sure if there is much Sweet chestnut around me here. Thanks

Yes starting brood breaks next week, making nucs, raising queens. It’s a nightmare if it’s hot

@@richardnoel3141 l have the opportunity to buy used Nicot frames here in Italy... l just want your opinion. My Heather flow is usually really good but very late in compare with other places. Sometimes September- November. It's warm and they will draw if they have to. The question l have ..would it be better for me to wax them for that late flow. I have the wax it wouldn't be a problem.. but will it help to build them that late. It's a good price.. l think I'll buy them anyway. I just want an opinion does waxing makes it easier...

@@researcherAmateur hi, if their already used or not the bees seem happy to build to them. It’s the spacing that is more important. As per the video. Good luck with your Heather.

​​@@richardnoel3141 thanks Richard. This is my vacation and I'm spending it with bees again. But only early mornings. I will buy them ,it will be easy to transport with a boat to my place. Thank you. Wow. I just watched again. You know how much difference it is... l already eaten the Brunbels here.

Nicot “Baticadre” made by Nicoplast

Good luck. All little things I picked up. Hope it helps

Very strong, pungent, but ours is mixed with bramble so it’s considerably softer in flavour. We say harvest taste . Summer honey is very popular here

It can be quite dark and a strong flavour.

I think you have to be used to it. I like it.. but it has a special taste. It's sweet and bitter. If that's the right word.. really bitter

@@sidelinerbeekeeper admittedly I get a bit carried away. May be not such a bad thing but sometimes I need to tone it down a bit! 🙌🐝 🙏

@@gwenyngruffydd I wasted a lot of time waiting for her, I think she landed a few moments before on the feeder that was just sitting on top of the hive but she didn’t actually come down for awhile so when she did come down, it was easy because she had to walk anyway I was lucky to get that short mate thanks.

Hi Kathy their Nicot “Baticadre” will try and send a link attached hope it works. www.nicotplast.fr/presentationfrancais/fpagecadre.htm You will need to buy from an authorised distributor

@@richardnoel3141 Thanks Richard I got it . I will check in to those . Thanks

@@robyngoold6924 oversized old supers don’t fit underneath the roofs that are standard with DADANT . So as a compromise the roofs are at an angle if they don’t fit properly. Working on this problem! But it’s time and money. Supers are actually really good 🤷🏼‍♂️