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Ive not been in the hive for a month. I’ve just been feeding the bees 2/1. On my daily look outside the hive I saw two wasps on the concrete base outside the entrance. They were chewing on something. I retrieved this thing to discover it was a cream coloured adult ‘something’ l assumed the bees...

I’m in Lancashire. Is Mid August too late for Virgin Q to mate and get my only colony through winter? Or should I buy an F1 Buckfast ?

I was donated a QC. I made up a Nuc and shook 3 frames of bees into the 5 frame box. My esteemed colleagues told me that the nurse bees cannot convert the honey into food without flying bees collecting water and needed a feeder. So I went back in and moved the frames into a National Deep (...

Hi. I bought a nuc off a local 🐝 keeper. He’s a nice guy and is my mentor however I was perplexed today when, after I had called him yesterday to say I had several swarm cells he helped me today. There were more starting QCs and one capped QC ( I must have missed it yesterday) He said we need to...