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Further to a question I'd asked about Bailey comb changes, I really really want to go to the apiary, set up a nice clean floor and brood box full of new frames with new foundation and a clean CB and roof, next to a hive needing brood frames scrapped. The bees are all in the super with stores. I...

The temperature has reached 10C today so I expected to see a little bit of activity. Incredibly one of the hives is going like a fair! Plenty of bees hovering about the front facing the hive so I presume these are new bees, but what on earth are the rest of them doing? They seem to be flying...

Hello, Just joined but have kept bees for a while. I do brood in a half. I had terrible predation problems from housemartins (counted over 60 once on the telegraph wires by the hives) but have put up two bird kites this Spring and that has solved the problem! I recently read a suggestion on...