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In a rare break in the weather, I checked my hives to see what signs that virgins had been mated. Horror of all horrors, I found one virgin running around on the front of the hive with deformed wings, unable to make her mating flight. What are my options? Is it worth catching her and putting...

Is there a prescribed formula for chunk honey, or can I put a chunk of comb in a jar and fill it up to weight with liquid honey? Can the chunk honey comb be broken or in small bits, as you might get having cut out 8oz pieces of comb? Does the chunk comb have to be capped or can I use the...

I currently have 12 colonies of all sizes, I started the season with 7 and had a high of 18. SWMBO was threatening to leave at 20 !!!! But three of the reductions so far have been because of DLQ or Laying workers, the other three just became queenless, for whatever reason ( I reckon I must have...

Has anyone got any tips as to how to clean out frames of drone brood and eggs from what I think was Laying Worker frames rather than a drone laying queen? I had a hive which I threw out onto the ground a hundred yards away and let the workers fly back to next door hive. The only problem is that...

I have a hive which swarmed about a fortnight ago. I left two open queen cells on one frame. I have been monitoring this frame whenever possible. This morning one had hatched out, so I removed the frame with the unhatched QC into a Nuc box, having shaken off the bees (in case q was on it) and...

How often should one feed during prolonged bad weather at this time of year? In Cumbria, We have had continuous cold wind and rain for the whole of May and June. It's slightly warmer now, but still wet. My bees have chopped through stores and I have been feeding a 4 pint rapid feeder weekly...

I am confused about the lime species which are poisonous to bees. The BBKA leaflet ' Trees for Bees' lists the following species as suitable for planting: Medium Sized: Tilia mongolica (Early), Tilia euchlora (mid season) and Tilia miquelana (late flowering) Large size Tilia maximowicziana...

I find myself in the same position as darren64. I have just found QCs in a hive which was AS'd in the first week of July.(Originally a 5 frame Nuc, acquired late May) Obviously this is the old queen part of the AS. Last w/e I thought the two cells on the middle of a frame might have been...