Recent content by Bevbee

Thank you all. Apologies that in my panic my post was not at all clear . i had in fact done a pagden and put the old marked queen in a new bb with a single frame of brood ( no QCs) on the original site. The new location BB had a single sealed Qc left and a Virgin ( this might be a mistake but...

i Found a marked queen and maybe 20 worker bees with her on the outside of the brood box. When I opened the brood box there were sealed swarm cells ( I found about 8-10) . I did the following: 1)put the queen in a clip in my pocket. 2)put new brood box on original site 3)went through original...

No , I have kept three hives . The swarm I collected was the fourth and I United the aggressive colony with this. I only want three colonies as that is what is covered by my local beekeeping association insurance. Would you have re queened the aggressive colony ? If so how would you have done...

It was a close call at one point 😂😂😂😂x

Thanks especially for your advice re q returning to original location . That makes total sense now . And that is exactly what she did 😀

Sorry for the delay in replying . Okay husband was still saying " sorry !" And looking very fearful for days. But then I got a grip 😀 .This is what happened. 1/ I united 5 frames ( of nasty bees ) with the swarm ( these were the frames I had just placed in a nuc when doing the original search...

HELP HELP HELP ! Sorry everyone but it has all gone horribly wrong. Following all the excellently advice I was given on this forum I had a plan. 1/ On Sunday ( 9/8) I put a clearing board under three of the four supers on the aggressive hive ( despite being gentile and speedy I received half...

I did think of this as one of my hives has quite a nasty infestation and I will be applying apiguard as soon as it arrives ( should have been Thursday so hopefully today ) . I know that all hives should be treated at the same time but thought that a week overlap ( appiguard takes two weeks )...

Thank you. She is in a single brood box and she is marked . Hopefully I can find her before it all gets too messy 😀

Thank you - that makes sense . I love your footer re beekeeping - it's so true 😀

One of my three hives has been extremely aggressive this year. (It wasn't last year - she was a new queen and she was calm ). This year they have been following ( on one occasion 150 m) and stinging people that are 40 + feet from the hives. By July inspecting was almost impossible as they...

Ahhh This makes total sense to me! I can accept that I missed the virgin queen. I did feed sugar syrup and they did take loads. The weather was appalling here in April ( Easter excepted) and getting out and about was a problem for all hive inhabitants so they would not have found much of...

Yes that is probably it. Although wouldn't this theory make more sense if they had all left immediately ? They took the time to lay four/five frames of brood, they had plenty of food. Why would their dislike of a shook swarm affect them five weeks later ? Why would they bother making a QC at...

Tried it for the first time this year. One of the experienced guys at the local beekeeping association swears by it and as the BBKA magazine article writer also suggested it, I thought I would try it out with two of my hives. I am pretty convinced that they are disease free and, until they...