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Hi all, 24 days ago we noticed our hive was extremely busy, and being a warmish day and fearing a swarm we went against all advice and opened it up to find it absolutely rammed with bees - Brood box and Super had bees on every frame plus two queen cells with eggs in them. We did a walk away...

Hi all, We have a new hive that has done very well and is very healthy - we got 4 kg of honey this year - and we are setting it out for winter. The bees have a full super of honey, and the brood box has less brood and more honey as time goes on. This inspection there were no new eggs but I...

As I said on my 'I'm new here' post we collected a swarm about a week ago and I have just opened the hive to see what is going on. The bees are on the frames which is good. I could not spot the queen but they did appear to be piling on top of each other in one particular area - so presume the...

Hello - nice to be here! About three years ago we inherited a lot of equipment from a bee keeper who unfortunately was allergic to stings and his colony had died out. Not knowing what they had died from we burned the hive and built a new one, and also attended our local bee keeping...