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Just inspected a hive that started off as a small caste at the end of May. They were building up fairly slow but then started to come on nicely so I added a second box on top, extending to another six frames. So six in the bottom and six in the top. There was a large amount off bees in the...

Have a hive that swarmed that has me stumped a bit. It's on brood and a half. The hive swarmed about 4/5 weeks or so ago. (Don't have notes of dates with me). Queen was clipped so all the flying bees came back. Made up two nucs with queen cells from this hive. No eggs appeared in the...

I'm a little worried and looking for some simple advice. I've transferred two nucs into two full hives. I had drawn frames to make up the extra space. So in ten days I went from a six frame nuc to an eleven frame hive. After inspecting I've found bias on ten of the eleven frames. It's left me a...

I united a queenless hive with a queen+ nuc last Wednesday. Seems it didn't go according to plan. Found lots of emergency queen cells today as well as two queen cells with eggs laid in them. I guess they made emergency cells before they got used to having a new queen. They had two supers, one...

I have to close up a few hives tomorrow due to a gardener working in the garden where I keep my bees. Two of them are on OMF. I have pieces of mesh to cover the entrances. On one hive I have put in a piece of mesh over a feeding hole in the crown board and I will raise the roof by 20mm to allow...

So, I'm following on from a form of demaree as swarm control and then setting that up in it's own hive with a queen cell, and also making another nuc with another queen cell. Both new queens in second hive and nuc are laying away. Original colony was left with old queen and frames of foundation...

Following on from finding queen cells last month I've split my original colony and put a queen cell in a second hive and another in a nuc. Both cells were sealed on the 20th of April. I checked on 12th of May and no signs on either queen and no eggs. The nuc appeared to have some some of...

I recently made a nuc for a split. It was out of necessity as I couldn't buy one in time and I had a charged queen cell. It's made from 18mm Ply. I made a perspex crown board for it and the roof is insulated with polystyrene. I've noticed moisture on the inside of the crown board and there's a...

I just have a couple of things I'd like to get opinions on. After a recent split I've added some frames of foundation. The bees seem to have extended the cells on an existing frame instead of drawing out the new foundation. Looks like there won't be enough room now. Is this something they will...

Just looking for some input and advice about my bee keeping issue. A bit of background first. I opened them up two weeks ago and found they were doing well so added a super and gave them a feed to encourage them to draw out the foundation. After leaving them for two weeks I opened them...

Saw this one flying around outside. Ten minutes later I heard a buzzing inside and there she was. Came in through a small hole at the bottom of the door.

So I decided to add super on top of the brood box in case my bees needed space. Plan was to have some newspaper to separate the brood box and super and they could move up when they needed. When I lifted the crown board there were bees on all the frames and sealed stores front and back. They even...

I was thinking of getting one of Thornes bees on a budget flat pack hives. Price seems cheaper than they are here in Ireland. I'm driving to London next weekend so I have the means to bring it back to Dublin. My main question is if I buy it now will it be delivered to a London address on time so...

I carried out an inspection yesterday, nothing out of the ordinary. Today I noticed the bees a little agitated. I thought it might have been due to some wasps that are hanging around. About 30 minutes ago I went out to take a look just to see if any wasps were getting in perhaps. Colony seems...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice regarding rotating a hive. I currently have my hive facing east. It's somewhat shaded by a tree up until 2pm or so. I faced it east so it would face to the end of the garden rather than facing into the garden (south) so the bees wouldn't be bothered by us walking...