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Dear All Last year, a few of my colonies suffered from a mouldy crown board (on top and underneath) - the bees were all ok though - it didn't spread to the super I leave on for them. So the question is how best to ventilate crown boards over winter? 1. Standard crown board: One escape has...

I have an overwintered nuc on 14 x 12 frames and want to move and expand onto standard national frames in a standard national brood box. Is this best way a shook swarm and to feed them heavily? Thanks

May be an odd question but for overwintered nucs, is it best to expand them into colonies and then split back off a queenless nuc....rather than removing the queen from the overwintered nuc and using it for queen rearing directly?

Just done my last inspections before shutdown (after finishing OA vaping treatment) and one of my nucs has a lot of EQCs and the marked queen is nowhere to be seen (and no eggs). Is this nuc now lost? Seems late to hope that the EQ will mate successfully? Instead, should I try and requeen (if...

Dear all I’ve completed 4 treatments of vapourised OA spaced 5 days apart and I’m still seeing a significant mite drop (20-30 per colony). Should I carry on treating with OA until the mite drop falls? Or switch to MAQS strips? As always, thanks. LD

I’ve seen 2.5g of OA vaporised per colony and also 1.5g per colony, The GasVap measure is for 1.5g… Does anyone have a definite be answer?! Best regards LD

Hello all I’m sure this has been discussed many times but what is the consensus? Last winter I had tried the super below the brood box overwinter and it seemed to work well. thanks LD

Hello I want to combine bees from a queenless nuc with bees in a National hive with a super on top using newspaper. So my question is, am I best adding the extra brood box with the incoming bees above or below the super. Thanks for the advice. LD

Hello All I was wondering what tips you have for moving my overwintered 5 frame nucs back into 12 frame wooden brood boxes please? I did a first inspection today and the nucs are rammed with bees and brood (to the point where they are rearing brood up into the miller feeder entrance and into...