Recent content by Ben32

Yes everything looks ok, my brood box is filling out nicely apart from this small problem, yes I think I will start to replace more frames and put between the 1s that are cousing the problems, thanks

Hard to explain, I have gaps at each end of my frames around 1 inch, on 6 frames, these frames are at the side of each other, I have the sides on the lansthroth frames so basically all the bees need to do is build Combe down to fill these gaps until I work them out of the hive, but the bees are...

There already on, their not attaching to the side walls of the hive but building the comb side ways from 1 frame to the next in the gaps

No it's not a frame spacing issue I don't think, it's the 1 inche gaps at either end they are doing it with, if you remember I have national frames tied to langstroth frames, wich left me with a 1 inche gap at either end of each frame, it's in these gaps that they are buildng comb out wards...

Hi, The bees are not filling the gaps up properly on the frames, they are filling the gaps up from the side of another frame instead of from the top of the frames, therefore making them interlocking, as we talked about earlier I have attached my smaller frames to the langsteoth 1s using tye...

How do I stop them doing this? Make the entrance bigger?

Yes that sounds like it, I will keep checking on them

Everything seems ok now they've settled down to how they were

I got the bees 2 week ago, and put some suger water in for them but they wasn't feeding on it so I took it out around a week ago, no, no farmers spraying I don't think

Hi new to keeping bees, so far everything been going ok untill I came down today, Approaching my bee hive today there were thousands of bees around my hive trying to get in, looked like they were fighting, everything settling down now and there's hundreds of dead bees infront of the hive, What's...

Great stuff thanks

My fault with the frames I guesse! I just presumed they were all a set size as when I ordered extra frames and the queen excluder they all were the same size as my hive

Ok I get it, but couldn't I take it home cut the honey comb from the national frame and attach it in to my langs frame somehow and then put it back into the brood box?

When will I know when it will be best to start removing the national frames?

Just to let every1 know , I have been down and successfully attached the national frames to the lang frames with tie wraps, bees look great and there seems to be a lot more than there was Sunday and we saw the queen going about her business so I added 2 more frames with foundation on between the...