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Hi all, Inspected two hives this afternoon, both with recently capped and some open queen cells. Both hives however were boiling over with bees, and still plenty of eggs and young larvae. I couldn't find either queens, but given the bad weather we've had here the past few days, I made the...

The heather/moorland around here is patchy at best but it is there. I've never taken bees to heather or had a heather crop before, but I have a potential new apiary site, predominantly in arable/grazing land. The closest heather/moorland is about 400m away, with around ~60 acres of...

Inspected a hive today, despite going through a couple of times, found only 2 queen cells, one capped and one charged, both on the bottom edge of a frame. Regardless or swarming or supercedure, I appreciate with more than one queen or QC, there is the possibility of swarming, so I nuc'd the...

Visited an out apiary yesterday, a found the inspection tray on one of my poly hives had been pulled out, and broken in two with the two pieces around 8ft apart. No damage to the adjacent wooden hive on the same stand. Claw marks on the back of the hive, and on the inspection tray. I'm...

By efficient, I guess I mean achieving all your aims, of space/QCs/stores/brood with minimum fuss, not trying to race through in 4 minutes a hive! I've been inspecting my bees either Fri/Sat/Sun, so it gives me a bit of flexibility when other things get in the way. This means i'm going in every...

Another nuc box question if I may... I have the BS honeybees 6 frame poly nuc, which has the divider board, so can work as two separate colonies on 3 frames. I would like to try and raise some queens from my one of my good colonies, which has produced swarm cells. My thinking so far, for each...

My question stems from a colony I inspected yesterday, 6-7 queen cells, polished inside but not charged, and no eggs in the QCs that I could see. My plan at the time was to nuc the queen, but I could not for the life of me find her... It's a poly hive, brood and a half with one super on. As the...

Hi all, After a little advice please on the best way to requeen or proceed with a rather swarmy colony I acquired this year, and anything I should have done differently. I'm only in my second year of beekeeping so be gentle. History is as follows: 19th April - Colony collected as a large...

Hived a swarm collected last week. Had a quick peak through the polycarb crown board today and could see a couple of drones, on the top of some of the frames. Swarm has only been in the hive 8 days, so not long enough have raised their own. Curious as to whether these could be drones that...