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Thinking about spring expansion next year and after reading a bit I am starting to wonder if it would be sensible to think about changing from a standard national brood box to a 12 x 14 for next year. What I am struggling with is moving the bees from one size frame to the other? can any one...

Hi, looking for some advice. I am lucky enough to have a father in law who was a professional cabinet maker prior to retirement. he has kindly offered to construct some hive parts for me and i was wondering about type of materials. soft wood, ply-board, or cedar, are they all ok to use or...

Hi everyone Just looking for some advice. I collected a swarm 17 days ago and located them in the brood box of one of our hives. I placed them on a mix of drawn comb and some new foundation as available. Since then I have been feeding them and they appear settled. My question is that while...

Hi Everyone, Joined a few weeks ago but have had password problems so a bit of a delay introducing myself I live in Aylsham in Norfolk and have been looking after a couple of hives at work for the last year but have only just installed some bees at home. Now I have them at home I have sent my...