Recent content by Stephen Matthew

Yes I’ve done that. I just wondered which one you were referring to.

That’s helpful. Which blog was it you suggested in an earlier post for Newbies?

Did you see my post about them not bringing pollen in? Is this significant do you think? I’ll inspect them tomorrow.

Ok thanks for that. They’re a bit calmer today than yesterday- they’re in the shade - but they’re not bringing in any pollen. Is that normal? Mind you my new colony isn’t bringing in any either

Many thanks for all your replies - most helpful. I’ll check everything out and let you all know. I’m hopeful the Queen is still there but she won’t be in the super. I cleared it all out and put the frames with the honey back in and the qe on the brood box. Thanks again

One empty super (by mistake) and another super on top with half/super frames

That’s good to know. By way of explanation, I added a super as an extra brood box and put the qe on top but for some inexplicable reason there were actually 2 supers and the bees added a huge amount of comb underneath. In fact it was everywhere so I removed the supers put the qe back on top of...

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Just concerned this is normal behaviour and not a sign of eg a missing queen

I made a few mistakes which led to me removing a super with the frames, clearing all the additional comb, some brood and honey and putting the frames and super back. I couldn’t see the queen and am hopeful she scarpered into the brood box but she’s not mark d and I can’t find her. My question is...

And how long should I obstruct the entrance for and should I leave the twig/leafy branches or replace with grass

Hi, I’m aware of the 3 mile/3 feet rule but relocating the hive for a few weeks or moving it 2 feet a day aren’t options. So I moved it 5 feet 2 nights ago and last night I moved it the remaining distance - 30 feetish. On both days I put a correx box in the old location and a few bees went back...