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One of my hives the queen went off lay about 3 weeks ago. This coincided with the removal of supers. Hive was low on stores so I am feeding this hive. The queen is a 2023 queen and there has been no attempt by bees to requeen. I am wondering how long is normal for being off lay as I am concerned...

Last Friday I checked hive for swarm preps and found just 2 sealed queen cells in brood box, queen not seen but saw eggs so presumed superceding and left them to it. Today I was checking the supers(I didn’t check them last Friday) and found 1 sealed queen cell in middle of a super frame with 6...

This is my first post although I have been on your site lurking and learning for the past year. I need advice regarding a very defensive hive please. This hive was one part of an artificial swarm in June -it was the nurse bee part and was left with a queen cell . Queen emerged,mated and was...