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Last month only one of my four hives had a super on with enough honey to extract, I had put a second super on it but that had minimal honey. I cleared the full super and extracted the honey leaving the second super on. All my hives have BB and a super on at the moment. My question is should I...

I inspected my four hives and found hive 1 had lots of bees but no brood and very little stores. Hives 2 and 3 had some brood and stores on a couple of frames. Hive 4 had more brood and stores and still has a super on with honey in that was too small a quantity to extract. Is the lack of brood...

In hot weather would it be a good idea to use fine mesh to cover the feed holes rather than solid wood pieces. This would give better ventilation or will the bees regulate the temperature themselves anyway?

I have been given another hive of bees by a retiring beekeeper unable to cope with them. I left them to settle in my apiary but noticed yesterday there is no queen excluder between the brood box and super. Not sure if this was accidental or is it a brood and a half set up? When I do a full...

I put up a bait hive in my garden about 6 days ago and had some bees around after a couple of days. I wasn't sure if they had moved in or were just robbing honey from a frame I had put in so I observed regularly. It now seems I have a swarm as they are coming and going regularly and are now...

I have read that a nuc can positioned in a tree as a bait hive to attract a swarm. I would like to have another colony, currently I only have 1. I have built a spare hive that I could put in my woodland apiary, could that be a bait hive? Or I could make a wooden nuc (pretty handy with wood and...

I've read a couple of posts mentioning wet frames. What exactly are they? Thanks

Yesterday I did my first solo inspection on a hive. I did an excellent beginers course early last year and collected my bees in late August in their brood chamber. I did have a quick look at them then as the brood box needed a repair. Yesterday I didn't spot the queen but saw some healthy...