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One of the hives very busy, have left alone, the other a lot quieter had a quick look under crown board, all the bees are at one end of hive. I don't want to disturb them, any idea, there is plenty of fondant left, they have hardly touched it?

My two hives busy foraging in the sun.

Inspected 2nd hive last week ( New Swarm of 4 weeks ) stung on my ankle and bicepts thro suit. Unusually swollen and painful for 3-4 days. Inspected ist hive yesterday stung again thro sock on ankle, ankle very swollen and painful, the original sting on ankle is painful from last week and my...

As above Bees very active over the last few weeks. To our horror there was about 15 big stripey Slugs ahhh, removed and killed. Plenty of bees, good natured, good build up of capped and uncapped stores. No Queen, two thirds of brood Drone, no eggs. One Queen cell in middle top of frame bees...

Have just cleaned out hive which didnt make it( Virgin Queen ) never returned. Have noticed some blue mould on parts of the drawn comb. What is the best thing to do, leave it for bees to sort out in the spring ????? cut the offending pieces out ??????

What month would you first start feeding syrup?

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Picked this up in the Market used to transport parsley from Spain. Will either add more frames or blank off. Will use outdoor varnish on bits of frame sticking out.

Have removed honey for extraction, first hopefully of many to come. Now only brood box ( National ) plenty of stores and brood in there. Bees still actively foraging around here. I will be feeding fondant thro winter what is the best way, place fondant on frames or place a super on top of crwn...

From previous thread, received a new Queen from Ricky Wilson West Wales £25 today. Hive one Queenless for 6 weeks, about to add some brood and new queen but double checked frames to my surprise it was full uncapped brood. I stand head bowed to all the beeks who told me there was a Queen from...

Inspected hives today main hive Queenless, no brood no eggs hardly any bees plenty of honey. Before any one says there could be a queen hiding there has been nothing there for approx. 6 weeks, had experienced Beeks with me as well. What to do, I believe its too late to buy a mated queen the hive...

I am considering making a viewing hive in the future, the one I have seen had a bottle of syrup inverted into a hole on the top of the hive. I have looked thro plenty of threads and you tube to no avail, can anyone help???? a plan would be very helpful.

Checked main hive after new queen emerged 3 weeks ago, only pollen and honey, no brood no queen cells, no queen. 2nd hive which was a split from main hive with capped queen cells in,(mentor took 2 cells for his queenless hives) three weeks ago couldn't see queen but capped brood so believe queen...

On an inspection this week a number of allotment holders and myself included were bombarded by aggressive bees and stung. Thinking out loud after the inspection if the hive and flying bees around the hive were sprayed with a fine rose connected to a hose pipe would the aggressive bees take...

At 11 o'clock today sun shining and warm the bees decided to cover the hive, there were thousands flying and covering hive. I watched for about 20 mins eventually back to normal. I don't believe they swarmed?????????? if not what went on. The hive was queenless swarmed a few weeks ago checked...

We did an A/S last week, checked today, original hive no queen, no eggs, two supercedure cells plenty of nurse bees. Hive 2 had a quick peek 3 frames plus some extra nurse bees, syrup, last week there were capped queen cells, leaving it for 3 weeks. So hive one what to do leave it or keep...

Our little group checked hive Sat, No Queen, many capped Queen cells on 2 frames, one queen emerging and killed. Frames with 2 cells honey etc moved to new hive. About 6 cells left in old hive. Did we do right?? or not. Should we have left one or two per hive. If one queen was emerging Sat the...

A/S done yesterday all looking fine, but I made a long hive( darlington style ) there are a number of bees in there. Are they scouts looking for a new home. There is only foundation in there a swarm lure and Some syrup just in case??? Any ideas?????????????????????:sos:

We are contemplating building an indoor apiary, could we transfer a colony from outside approx. 1 metre away to an indoor hive. Would they be confused, if we did it in the winter would that work?????. There were so many colonies lost last year to the weather.??????????????

If we had a hot long summer!!!!!!!!!! Took one frame brood with workers and a frame of honey syrup fondant etc introduced a new Queen would it work or would it be insufficient to survive come the winter, or wouldn't it survive at all????????