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Hi! My bees swarmed yesterday but I managed to retrieve them with the help of another more able beekeeper than myself. I had (stupidly) lent my spare hive out to someone and due to an increase in my own bees from 2 hives to 3, I had no spare equipment at all. I usually keep a national hive...

Thanks for your advice, I think I might have a bit of a space at the top of the combs, I think this particular hive doesn't have any metal runners on it so that makes sense. I could probably do with raising the lugs on the combs up but not entirely ure if I can do this in a 'bee friendly' way...

Hi! This is my first post! :) I'm just wondering if anyone can offer some advice. I have a hive of bees who are intent on building wild comb anywhere they can and have started to build comb on the underside of the queen excluder dwnwards between the frames. The queen excluder is one of the...

Here I think http://www.honeybeesuppliers.co.uk/Queens%20-%20Buckfast.htm (just found this on the Internet), I haven't bought any from here though so I can't vouch for them but I'm pretty sure a quick call to Buckfast could clarify. Let me know how you get on:)