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Hello everyone, The school I work for now has four hives and I need to consider varroa treatment (as routine, rather than because of a noted presence of varroa.) The hives currently have honey for harvesting and I won't be able to harvest it for two weeks. After this, I intend to put apivar...

Hello everyone, beginner's questions here. I got a fair few frames of honey of varying quality (probably about 20 supers and 6 brood) from the hives I had back in September. However, the hives were at my place of work and I didn't have an extractor, so the honey just sat in the frames. I put...

Hello everyone. Happy for this post to be moved elsewhere if it's not "Honeybee Health"... I have three colonies; I last inspected two weeks ago and two I'd bought this year were super-healthy and one that I'd got last year and had come through the winter seemed to be doing OK - no varroa...

Hello everyone. First post from me here for a while. Probably a beginner's question but happy for it to be moved elsewhere. I've recently started a beekeeping club at my work, which is a school. We're fortunate to have quite a big budget to play with so to keep it interesting, we're getting...

Hello everyone. Still finding my way around the forum so apologies if this is posted in the wrong place...if I could be directed to the right place, I'd be most grateful! Had decent weather today so opened up the hive for the first time since before Christmas. The super was full of honey and...

Hello everyone, I'm back with yet another question! I went down to the hive today with the intention of removing the queen excluder so that the queen had access to honey during the rest of the year. Then I found that I'd not got one super on, as I'd thought, but two. The top super was...

Hello everyone, probably a beginners question but mods can move if not! I spent today extracting honey from the top super frames of my hive of sometimes tetchy bees. Went very well, no stings, lots of honey, but.... ...having put the super frames through the extractor, many of them are now...

Hello, Just read the "grumpy bees" thread with interest - a swarm I took last year are feisty to say the least (have been stung a couple of times, and chased quite a number) - though not as bad as the ones described. I'm loathe to just kill them off as they also seem ridiculously good at honey...

Hello everyone, first post on here so if it's in the wrong place, apologies. I got a colony last year after a ten-year absence. I'm thinking of, if I get a swarm this year, running one hive along Warre principles, which is to say, nadiring and only providing top bars. But I've got a few...