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Hi, One of my frames of brood has a peculiar configuration with dimples around each individual cell that I haven't seen before. That said, I've only been beekeeping two years and have only two colonies. I wondered if this is something to do with drone brood or is it a health concern that needs...

Earlier this year I split a colony and fed the newbies a little syrup to get them going. A few weeks later I had run out of frames and supers so extracted what turned out to be rather sugary tasting honey. I've kept it in a plastic container thinking that I could feed it back to the bees for...

Can honey be left in an aluminium extractor? I'm out of storage space and not ready to jar them yet.

I have a hive which swarmed, but didn't have any queen cells because I'd destroyed them (I must have missed the swarm by a day perhaps, there were eggs when I checked and had no kit left for an AS as I'd already performed one weeks before). I have now checked the hive again and there are four...

I have several metres of 18mm thick Cedar planks (at no cost) but they're only 90mm wide and they're tongue and groove, which means that if I slot them together to get the required width there will be a small indent along the join inside the hive. Will this cause a problem? Could I use a...