Afternoon all,
New beek here and as i like to say "All the gear, but no idea!"
Have two happy hives at the moment(*read below first), it was three for a very short time (short version - I rescued a hive from a scout hall wall, cut out the comb, wired it into empty frames, and got a very harsh crash course on why 'bee space' is important and how quickly SHB can overrun a hive when you create a space for them.....) - interesting fact - i can fit two 8 frame supers into my freezer! Frames and boxes complete!
And following some good advice to put insecticide on the ground in front of that hive (Coopex) to make sure the larva don't come up and have a go at my other hives, i diligently mixed and applied to the affected area, which i have now discovered was much too close to my good hives... and have a couple hundred dead bees on the ground in front of them now.
In short, i am not the best noob beek going, but i am going to do everything i can to get these girls through! Not their fault i am a twit!