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Legally one can't just help themsleves to the bees as they have an owner.

Some ? Ratio of worker brood to drone brood ?

Any sealed worker brood seen ? If only Drone brood could be DLQ, really poor brood pattern may be LW's and QL. Hence the temperatment change. No pics, we can't see what you are seeing .

Why make double the work for the bees at this time of year when they don't need the extra work load or need the use of the stores.

Yes , weather looking a bit dismal again after tomorrow.

Greetings Rifat and welcome to the forum.

Any capped stores will be fine for long term storage.

If a colony swarms and then one needs to go in what ever the weather asap and sort the issue out. The situation is very different to that of a first of the season check where more favourable weather may often be better.

Yep agree, once the stores are sealed take them off for safe keeping later. I fed back some two year old ivy stores last month to ward off any starvation issues.

No two colonies are the same, one won't know until one tries the manipulation.

The answer is a simple one, stick any crystalised honey back on a/the colony and let them sort it out. No free meal will be left alone, recently did this with some two year old stored ivy honey during April as colonies were getting short of stores. All stores as of the weekend were utilised...

Why not ? It depends how well you know your bees and their past history to read what they are up to. If they haven't swarmed and no QC's then Demeree splits them, keeping the colony as one and improving/keeping any honey crop /forage ticking along. If one can't get all the brood in to the...

I rarely get stung , on the hands. My protocol is blue flocked type marigold main glove and a nitrile over glove, each colony has it's own over gloves and if the over gloves remain usable they are placed under the roof for next time. Each colony I use a seperate hive tool.

I Demeree double brood with three or four supers.

One can Demeree a double brood (I do if needs be) , a super may give bees space but not laying space. Go back in asap and look to see if any QC's have been built , if none Demeree them . If QC's are seen then one will have to AS them.