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For various reasons relating to my work and building work at home I was unable to extract honey from my supers (and prepare hives for Winter) this September/October. I am expecting there will be plenty left in spring - any advice on when I should remove the remaining honey and prepare the hives...

My wife managed to collect and house a swarm about 8 weeks ago (while I was away) into an old cardboard archive box which has continued to sit in the middle of the lawn with a plastic tablecloth over it. Clearly lots of comb etc in there now (but I can't really inspect it). I've got three other...

Very briefly - I have two Apimaye hives which have removable debris trays - cleaned and replaced on 14th March - checked both and estimated mite drop of about 7/day/hive after 14 days. Treated 1 hive with Hiveclean (i forgot to do the other) and cleaned the trays - next day 1 tray had about 70...

I seem to have either laying worker(s) or a drone laying queen in both of two swarms collected earlier this year (I started last year). Will they recover themselves from this (make a new queen or whatever) - or do i need to do something?

I have one hive which was pretty near full of bees last week; on Wednesday I collected my first swarm from house next door (and got them into my spare hive); looked in original hive yesterday to find that my collected swarm had definitely NOT come from my first hive AND that there were quite a...

Mould in the hive? This is a picture from the bottom of my Apimaye hive - I did a shook swarm a fortnight back, had a look today and found what looks like mould on one part of the tray - among the usual pollen, bees legs, bits of wax etc. The queen obviously survived as there is fresh larvae in...