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Hi I have a hive on double brood and 4 supers (3 filled & being capped, 1 empty) In today's inspection I noticed the top BB has now started to be back filled with honey (4 frames full of honey and the rest have brood with empty cells being filled with nector) instead of the supers. • Should I...

Hi all I did my first inspection of the season yesterday and found one hive with several frames full of stores. I treated with Apivar in autumn and wondering if I add a super on will the honey be safe for consumption if the bees move the honey up into the super? Thanks

Hi all In my 1st year beekeeping and have made a regretful mistake. I stored wet supers in the shed at the allotment in black bin bags. These were stacked and covered with board at bottom and top. However, I left one on the table and appears a rodent rat/mouse bit through the bag and has...

Hi Just wanted some advice and help in sourcing any packaging for holding honey jars when giving to customers. Alternatively, how's best to give them in a nice neat and presentable manner. How does everyone else give out >1 jar to customers? Attached is an example Thanks :)

Hi all I have a hive which was queenless so purchased a mated queen in June. Made them hopelessly queenless and introduced. When I checked 7 days later, there was no eggs/larve/brood. I added a frame of eggs from a another colony. When I checked today there was several queen cells but we're all...

Hi I have a hive that's hopelessly queenless and prepared to introduce to it a mated queen. Today I went to introduce the queen and noticed the bees have filled the frames in the brood box with nector. The hive has 2 supers: Top super - filled 90% 2nd super (above BB) this has a couple...

Hi I have 2 hives H1- 2021 Queen H2 - Queenless If H1 throws QC's, can I undertake a A/S and unite at the same time with H2? If so, how? Thanks

Hi all My first year beekeeping & my first post. In a routine inspection I found a sealed QC (with queen present), so applied the pagden method. Removed all QC's except the one sealed. Moved hive with the QC to the left. Kept queen + her frame in new brood box on original site. Checked 3 weeks...