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    Do bees like Gladioli corm flowers?

    And if they are for cut flowers they will be picked before they are open [emoji4] Sent from my F8331 using Tapatalk
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    Brood above and below QE

    Found the queen above upon initial inspection of the super, marked her and moved the whole super on QE before inspecting rest of hive. Couldn't find a queen below, a lot more bees and still not very good at spotting them ( if she was even there). There was no opportunity for me to have moved her...
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    Brood above and below QE

    Its a plastic one Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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    Brood above and below QE

    Did an inspection yesterday, first in about 3weeks due to poor weather and found on one hive capped brood and larva above and below QE.. Not in the usual pattern but two separate groupings. On last inspection I had just put a new super and QE on in preparation for the season. Checked the QE...
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    combining hives

    Thanks muswellmetro, you added the info I was not considering , the state of the comb, sometimes it just take a fresh pair of eyes to help you see the light. I will unite old on top of new, when I can find the queen in the cranky hive. The beekeeper all my bees came from has similar problems...
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    combining hives

    I have two weak hives, one which swarmed in mid July and a caste I collected in late June,and would like to combine them ready for the winter. The stronger of the two is the one that swarmed and I know this one should be at the bottom and I should put the weaker hive on top' but this hive has...
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    Swarm supersedure

    That makes sense, saves the problem of doubling up every year and keeps a strong hive going. Thanks
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    Swarm supersedure

    Thinking of better days. and come back to a question that has puzzled me before. The queen gets older and decides to swarm, she leaves when the queen cells are capped, we then go and catch the swarm and put it in a new hive, what then? HM is getting old possibly past her best does a supersedure...
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    Robbing bees?

    They have been out recently, between the showers, not in large numbers but certainly flying
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    Robbing bees?

    Managed to have a look inside the hive about two weeks ago, bees seemed plentiful, 5-6 frames of brood, added a super and the QE, didnt do too much weather was only just warm enough to risk a look. Since then I havent been able to check again due to weather. Today my daughter called me to say...
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    bruising the comb

    Have been going through different threads and 'brusing the comb' is a term that i have come across a couple of times (can't particularly remember where, my head doesn't work that way). New to beekeeping but I don't remember reading about this anywhere. So, what is it, how do you do it and why...
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    Modified Apidea

    Here in the west of Ireland on a breezy day the ridge tile would act like a sail, you could probably tie a string to it and fly the lot. Lol
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    Trees and bees

    From what I can remember, a mature tree in flower is equivalent to an acre field in flower, lime is good, willow is good for pollen early in the season, fruit trees are good but usually quite small, beech, hornbeam, birch are all wind pollinated (I think ) so not a whole lot of use
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    QX where amd when to put it come spring

    Got t my first bees last year, a swarm from a local beekeeper, kept them on a brood and a super and fed them at the end of the season so they have good stores for the winter. Then was told to remove QX, now i'm thinking ahead to next spring. When do I put the QX back ? and where, do I leave the...
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    Drones!

    New to this, but saw drones flying in and out of hive today, quite worried for a while as I didn't expect to see them at this time but it is unseasonably warm, coldest summer for 50 years then the hottest November on record, lets see what December can do!!
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