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Any advice gratefully received! I reared a queen cell successfully in a mini-nuc. I moved the laying queen and her bees to a nuc box to provide them with more space. The swarmed from the nuc despite having lots of drawn comb, a frame feeder and fondant. I found them and returned them to the...

Hi everybody. Taking advantage of the sun today, I inspected my hives and was delighted to find a queen in a colony which I thought was queenless. I put in queen cells a few weeks ago, so it worked! Anyway, queen present but no eggs. Is it that she hasn't yet gone for her mating flight or is it...

Hi. One of my colonies swarmed and I re-homed it in a nuc box yesterday with 6 frames of undrawn brood foundation. 5 minutes ago they swarmed again back to where I collected them from yesterday. Any ideas what's happening and what I need to do to settle them? Thanks for any advice you can give.

Hi. I inpsected my hives this evening and wonder if you could help with the two problems seen. First, one hive had a queen cell last time I inspected about 12 days ago - when I inspected today, the queen cell is still there, the hive is full of bees and stores (no eggs). Do you think the queen...

Hi. First year wintering bees so question may be stupid. Is it ok to feed sugar syrup while varroa treatment is in place?

Hi. First go at extracting - used a manual extractor which seemed to go well. Only problem is that the honey is very runny - I probably extracted too early but no choice as I'm not going to be near the hives again until mid September. My question is whether there is any way of now extracting...

Hi. I posted a thread a few weeks ago about a problem I was having with an overcrowded brood box and the bees were not going into the super via the excluder. The overwhelming advice I got was to remove the excluder and replace a few days later. This I did - but the bees still failed to into the...

As somebody new to beekeeping this year, I bought a full colony and had to shake them into my own national hive. I did all the things required to care for the shaken colony. The brood chamber is dynamic and has been for the last two weeks - lots of brood, eggs, stores, pollen and nectar. I...