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Im wanting to build a stone smoke house and bbq area at the side of my house however i have my bees roughly 1 acre away from the hives on the same side of where i want this smoke house/bbq area to be. Been wanting to build this for some time now, even before i got into beekeeping but now ive...

Was going to leave it another while to inspect but so busy with work and thought id jump in today. This is a hive that has been untreated in 2 years, came out of winter excellent. Has lots of stores, bias in the 2 supers and some stores in the bottom brood box however the most of the BB would...

One of my hives I've let the queen go into the super. Awhile back when I added the super, they queen started laying in the centre and was filling all other cells with honey thou they where uncapped and capped. We got a bit of bad weather so the bees started consuming the store's. Weather picked...

A swarm took up residence in one of my empty hives about a month ago. Built up excellent however when I gave it an empty drawn frame with wider cells, the whole frame was drones. When I noticed the frames where all drones, I should have acted then however I left them alone. The hive was...

Firstly, i caught a large swarm 2 weeks ago and put it in a brood box, gave some frames of capped honey, empty frames and theyve filled out a fast rate. When checking 2 days ago i noticed 2 Qcs in the middle of one frame right beside each other! Checked for eggs in them and noticed an egg in...

I have few frames of odd shaped drawn comb. It was from a swarmed colony last season and most the drawn comb was drone comb but oddly shaped. I wasn't to sure to give to my bees this year. My question is, if given to the bees, do they reconstruct the comb with the same wax or do they remove it...

Last inspection was on Sat and added a super for more room. I'm working 90mins away from home stoning 2 gables and leave at 6 in morning and back between 6.45-7.15 at night. On Fri leave for work and misses picking me up after it at 4.30pm and heading away for long wknd. Back Monday night. Do I...

I've 15 frozen 1/4-half filled capped super frames in freezer. Have to thaw my freezer out to remove them for putting in a super I added yesterday but since they are all frozen, how long before I put them in the hive. Should I leave it for a day or 2 untill they are fully thawed out or will few...

Just like the title suggests, That feeling after youve been at your hives and wondering did you make the right choice. One of my over wintered nucs have been building up well, BIAS on 7 frames, 1 frame of half drawn comb filled with eggs and 1 frame with old drawn comb and rest frames with...

Went into winter with 2 x 3/4 full colonies(if i remeber correctly), 1 nuc and experimented with over wintering with 1 frame. Turns out my 2 strongest hives crooked it and am now down to 1 small nuc and the one i experimented with 1 frame. of all the hives that over wintered, i was expecting...

Very simple question this one. When one changes a hives floor each year, DO you still use again this floor again or does it get thrown away incase it has the potential of causing harm to the bees.

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Was out feeding fondant to all my hives and I've also a hive sitting out with no bees in it(lazy beekeeping) and 90% drawn frames. After seeing some mould on one of the other crown boards which is under a bonnet of insulation, i then hecked the empty hive and most of the framrs were destroyed...

As we all know my first and 2nd year beekeeping has been eventful to say the least. Have learnt a lot but what matters most is my bees are buzzing along nicely, and now I'm sitting with a little stash of honey to do me and my young ones over the winter ;). When first putting the frames into...

I've a super with all frames full but not all cells are capped. I'd say if added all frames up, its leaning towards 3/4 capped and rest has some nectar and uncapped honey. I've removed this from the hive I have and will be extracting sometime this week but I'm wanting to know would it be OK to...

Who here successfully overwinters in an apidea! I've a spare laying queen and was in 2 minds to give it away or not or try and overwinter her in an apedia with brood and stores. I was even thinking of covering the apedia in more insulation for better heat retention. Another idea I have is to...

I've noticed in 2 hives these last few weeks that my bees have been building and capping QCs within 7 days and not 8. How common is this or does it happen on rare occasions! For example, last Sunday I checked 2 of my colonies that had laying queens. 1 hive was in 4 frames of bias checked it...

In spot of bother again and this is the condition hives are in now so want to know, whats my next moves to get them back on track. Havent took notes! i know silly of me again but going to get a recording device then will write notes after. Hive 1(nuc) This nuc has a marked queen on 1...

First day being able to check my hives in 13 days because of bad weather. After my inspection and first AS on my own, i walked away chuffed untill i got home and it hit me, i done it all up the left. First up thou, checked my over wintered nuc, all going well and found the Q straight away and...