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A friend has just sent me a picture of a very large swarm in tinsel Brooke, hilton, Derbyshire if anyone can collect it. Very low in an ornamental tree in a front garden. I have no spare hives now.

Natural varroa drop has been low all summer (average one a week even with Vaseline on the board - ants seem to walk over this with ease though!) After reading a thread on here I decided to treat anyway and I was quite shocked to find 104 dead for the first week. Also I sugar dusted 3 weeks ago...

Hi, I am a beginner. Returned from hols - inspected today and there are what looks like to me, two playcups but they are sealed. They are large, dome/rounded and at the bottom of the frame but they are not long and hanging down like the queen cells I have seen in my other hive. What action...

I have a hive I can see through the patio door and at night there is a cluster of bees gathered at the front entrance. Is this normal? Do they need a smaller entrance? The entrance seems quite busy in the day and they bump into one another as some go in and others are coming out? .... Just...

Hi, A friend gave me a nucleus with queen cells x2 Saw one of these damaged and the other empty on a previous inspection. All the brood was hatched by last week. The bees are lovely and calm. By the dates, if all went well, I expected to see eggs today as I thought she would start...

Hi everyone, I haven't any bees yet. I've just been given a National hive which I have blow torched and put in new frames etc. I am on a course. Someone has promised me some bees later in the year. I am sure I will learn lots from being on the forum.