Ive had two brood boxes on during the summer to give room for expanding colony and help prevent swarming. Question is do I leave them both on or is there a way to move bees down into first box for the winter
I live in Lincolnshire and there isn't much in the fields for the bees to feed on.
Looking elsewhere on forum and it seems its a problem in many parts of the UK when I inspected today there are loads of brood but hardly any honey stores. So to help them along I have given them a 1:1 syrup mix...
Well Ive just had a look and yes there was some drawn comb under the floor about five blobs and the area was full of bees so Ive now put a conventional floor on shaken the bees back in and Bobs your relation things seem back to normal
yes inspected last week all normal the brood box still has two undrawn frames and the super dosent have many bees at all only one frame that has been drawn
I was on the forum last week concerning bearding. The weather is hot but there must be half the colony on three sides of the hive. Decided to have a look this evening and there were several white undeveloped bees on the floor. They were not dead but laid on their backs and moving their legs. The...
Got a swarm about three weeks ago and they seem settled in the hive. When I put them in the brood box I put in two frames of honey on super frames. Looked today and they have built up the two super frames to match brood frames size and there seems to be a lot of drones laid. Do I remove these...
Only frames have either pollen or honey in I have some drawn frames spare could I use them if so the bees are only on three frames so where should i place it. Guess about 3 hundred bees in total
I had a queenless hive so purchased a mated queen she has been accepted into the hive but there isn't any brood frames being drawn and no activity around entrance ie no foraging. The queen is moving around the frames. How do I get things going?