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So this is my second year and we have just extracted over 50 lbs of honey from capped supers with more to do. However we have several frames that are not sufficiently capped. Could we extract them separately, put the honey from them into feeders and feed it back to the bees to get them to...

I have been trying to find an answer to this through my own research but can't. I have three hives on one long stand in a sheltered area of my garden, alongside my house. I can't walk behind the stand. The end hives face away from each other, roughly one North, one South. I can inspect them...

Hive 1 swarmed Sunday. Captured and put into a national brood box with two frames of food (one from each of other hives) and starter strips on three frames and full foundation on rest. QE top and bottom, they spent yesterday collecting pollen and so I hope they will stay and become hive 3...

One of my 6 indian runners came out of the pen yesterday morning barely able to walk. She was falling over and when she stood, she seemed to lean backwards. She could not negotiate the slight incline out of the pen. I separated her off kept water and food available She took some water and...

First one was getting honey in first year Second one is my lovely runner ducklings have grown up and started to lay. Well it is exciting to me, honey and eggs. Lovely. Pic of ducks and the drake, Francis (of course)

Hoping to get some useful feedback from you all. My local scout district is almost a crisis point in terms of getting enough adult leaders to run the beaver (age 6-8) cub (8-10 1/2) scout (11-14) and explorer (14-18) sections. We are going to do a big recruiting campaign but before we do I am...

A friend brought me back a pot of mountain honey from Italy (she knew I was worried whether I would get any honey in this my first year and it was a nice thought). It was sealed in a plastic pot. I tried it today and it is foul. Has a horrid chemical almost petrol aftertaste. Decided to try it...

My 13 year old is not keen on bees or honey but he dutifully helped me capture a swarm, inspected a tree bumble nest and lugs supers and frames around for me and seems to be interested in helping us do the extraction soon. However today there were some dead bumbles in our conservatory "Mum-Are...

We are about to go away for a couple of weeks. Both our hives have a full fully capped super on them plus another being filled I thought I should remove the fully capped frames to avoid robbing or any other disaster-this is our first ever honey If I do can I simply store them indoors? I have...

Hive one swarmed 31st may Yesterday we finally saw larvae and capped brood Very pleased but also saw two queen cups with royal jelly Knocked them down Did not find queen (despite best efforts) Hive is national. Brood is on 6 frames, stores on 3.5. Super on top half full and being filled Should...

My hive that swarmed a few weeks ago has just sent out a cast(clearly I need more practice in finding queen cells). I have caught it - or as of 5 mins ago I think I have- but they may prove me wrong. However what do I do. I don't have a Nuc. I do have a brood box but no roof (we only intended...

We inherited lots of hive equipment from an elderly neighbour. He had two unoccupied hives set up in his garden which were heavily infested with wax moth. We cleaned them, scraped them and thoroughly flamed them with a blow torch (creating a lovely smell of warm honey for a whole weekend). The...

My first ever hive swarmed last Friday (in the morning - I was planning to split it in the afternoon - oh well!) Anyway on inspection of the remainder we found three queen cells, knocked down two and left one. I carefully checked mid week and it had not yet hatched. Today we did inspection and...