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For the last month or so I've had a small number of bees walking around in the garden, and they make it as far as my patio which is about 90ft from the hives. Every day there seems to be the same amount, it's not getting worse or better as far as I can tell. They try to fly but don't appear to...

I extracted a few supers yesterday and there were around a dozen bees left in the supers, which I let out of the window of the room I was extracting. Most of them oriented themselves and made a beeline for the hives (around 100ft away). A couple just hung around, presumably they were house bees...

Hi, I am giving a colony to a friend who has a top bar hive. I am planning on doing the following. 1. Place donor colony on final location of TBH 2. Three days later, move donor hive to one side and place TBH in location, with entrance roughly in the same place 3. Allow the flying bees to...

Well today I saw something that I've never seen before. The background is as follows : The hive overwintered on standard nationals, and I've been swapping them over to 14*12 frames since the season started. 2 weeks ago I split the hive as there were several charged but open queen cells, and...

I currently have 6 hives, two of which are from a very swarmy colony that I want to remove the queens from. I'd also like to reduce the number of colonies in order to stop my garden being overrun with hives (I'm assuming that they all make it through the winter!) I typically get a fairly good...

Last week i carried out a Pagden AS, but because i couldn't find the queen she ended up in the original BB at the new location, where she's laying at a great rate. Yesterday i found her and marked her. I also observed a significant number of queen cups, some with eggs and jelly. The flying...

The attached picture was taken this morning, and it's a hive which seems otherwise healthy. I haven't done a full inspection yet, but looking through the clear crownboard reveals a healthy looking colony, and the inspection board indicates maybe 5 seams of brood. The queen is from last year and...

Where I work we have found a colony of honeybees living in a tree, inside a knot hole. Not necessarily an issue and I'd be happy to leave them, and see if I can catch a swarm from them in the spring, but if you look on the picture you can see that there is extensive bearding on the trunk. This...

So first inspection of the year was completed on Saturday. It was a nice and sunny day with no wind and a temperature around 13/14 deg C. the hive is on a brood and a half and was treated with OA dribble around New Year. The bees were very active, with plenty of pollen going in. I pulled...

Hello everyone, I live near Canterbury and inherited a colony of bees at the beginning of summer. Looking forwards to joining in :)