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Hi I have had a 6-frame wooden nucleus which has- so far- survived through the winter. I ended up with it after a number of very beginner learning curve mistakes late last summer, with a small nucleus requeened with a commercially brought Carniolan 2023 queen. It exploded in numbers and went...

Hi I’m a beginner, first winter (East Anglia) and (alongside a couple of other healthy colonies) have a wooden 6-frame nuc hive with a young 2023 queen. There are a good number of bees and the frames are fairly full of stores but I was planning on feeding fondant overwinter anyway. I was...

Hi. I’m a newbee and the last month has certainly been a bit of a learning curve. I started off with two overwintered nucs (marked 2022 queen). On 8th May, one hive swarmed- I saw it go, and caught it into a new hive, marked queen is there. I went through original hive, took down all QC (I think...