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    What did you do in the 'workshop' today

    put in 12 charged apidea's to keep cool until thurs when will let em loose!!
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    ive made a cock up and need some advice

    are there any drones yet or even drone comb in the hives? as you'll need some to get the queens mated.
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    First super full

    if there is any, appears to be less sown around here from previous years
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    poly crownboard ?

    use a crown board with a hole in it for feeding at times, you can soon bloke it up to stop the bees coming through, saves you having 2 types of boards
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    how many are not resisting checking hives

    have you got drone brood or drones?
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    how many are not resisting checking hives

    you can change your floors without too much disturbance to the bees, yes too early to check brood, let em get on with it, pollen coming in leave well alone, keep calm, dont panic mr mannering!!
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    Nuc Wanted - Mansfield Nottinghamshire

    asap! not many around yet, you may have to wait a few weeks or pay a premium
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    bin it i presume?

    air bubbles created by creaming, just eat it yourself sounds fine to me, rare for osr to be fermenting, if fermenting it would have pushed the lids off
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    Strange happenings after a swarm

    sorry for my last response, just noticed your location, lucky you
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    Strange happenings after a swarm

    A WHAT!!!!!!! why have they swarmed so early? 2 queens or more, brood box full of brood or stores, its not normal surely as they wouldn't survive in the nature as theres not enough out there for food and pollen and are there enough new bees to build the wax required for a new home?
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    Fondant on or off?

    if you have an eke with the fondant you could always put syrup on top of the fondant, then the bees can choose.
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    first inspection no brood or eggs

    pollen coming in, is the best sign you can expect for at this crap time. leave well alone for a couple of weeks we should all see some improvements!!!
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    Minimum Temp for inspecting a hive

    dont worry about inspecting the frames just ensure the bees are near the stores or food source if not sure get some fondant right on top of the cluster and wait until the temp is about 16 or more. nothing else you can do
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    Honey Room Thoughts

    we built an 8 x 8 room, adequate, 2 stacks of supers = 20 supers, into uncapping tank. into spinner, honey into honey tank, supers when done out of way. got 60 hives going no probs.
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    Wax moth/mice and polyhives

    last year my apidea's suffered badly from wax moth even when they were full of bees. yet my hives were untouched even in the same apiary.
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