Hi there Headfry, Tried to post picture on here yesterday but the forum servers seemed to be down. The hive is ....erm...a simple box type hive on breeze blocks with a newly housed swarm of bees. Ahem. I'm really showing my dumbness arent I! I've no idea the hive design name nor the variety of bee we have. I've been doing some reading from the docs forwarded earlier in this thread by Crichmond, with the big doc being very useful indeed. But the course is this afternoon so I'm hoping to glean facts and technical details from the expert keepers then.

So thought I'd take a snap on Thursday night and post it up but it has taken me this long to get on the system.

Thanks for the notes on the glass quilt too. I'll mention it to Ken and see what he says - it does make lots of sense indeed!

hive image:

methinks I've got lots of stings to come and things to learn. Going to fun!
P17B

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