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That is certainly not where you want a hole😵

White water based tipex that came with a padded brush rather than a bristle one was perfect. I just use white and write the year on my...

Fair comment.

I think you can stop feeding for now, drawing comb will be the last thing they will do in these temperatures, if you carry on feeding...

at a guess you didn't shake in enough nurse bees to cover the brood properly and many bees would have flown back to the 'mother' hive...

Ain't that the truth! 😁

I am in my 45th year. Still feels like the first.......welcome

Ok, so let's help you out a bit here, your hive is fine, or will be once it has grown a little, Shot one shows worker brood cells that...

Food, is there any other type of cell that may be brood? If not was the queen definitely mates? The brace comb on top of the frame is...

In your second year your hive will always look rammed. A good strong hive should be rammed, but it never does any harm to give them more...

That area,is generally where they add drone comb. Just a tip, if you leave a super on over winter, remove the queen excluder, the...

The best one I ever had was an acrylic pen £1 from the poundshop. Don't know if they still do them, only had yellow though😀

Looks like there was plenty of EFB around the Bridgewater area last year, so inspector is probably still checking to see if it is still...

When I told her where my other hives are (on the Somerset levels) she said they were fine and she didnt need to visit there.

She rang me about two weeks ago due to disease in the area, maybe not efb then. It was for my hives that were based by the ymca so...