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    Dead brood and no stores...

    Hi all, just thought I'd let you know that the bees are doing really well again now since I fed them, plus the weather has picked up a bit here too :) Thanks for your help!
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    Dead brood and no stores...

    Thanks for all your replies :) Much appreciated. I have given them some syrup this morning and whilst I was there they were really active and seemed more alert than yesterday. I'll keep feeding them for a while to see how they do. If there is no improvement I'll contact the bee inspector. Thanks...
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    Dead brood and no stores...

    That's my thinking too, thanks for the quick reply :) I'm going to prepare the syrup now so I can feed them first thing.
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    Dead brood and no stores...

    Hi all, sorry if this has been done before (I have been browsing but found nothing exactly like my situation...) So, my dilemma is this; last week (July 26th) I opened one of my hives and saw a healthy colony with lots of bees and brood. I decided to add another box (Note that I don't use...
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    Slow progress.

    The original hive has about five queen cells inside and I saw the swarm originate from my hive.
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    Slow progress.

    Okay, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm quite happy to have two colonies now :)
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    Slow progress.

    Hello, Just to update you and to get your opinions; I went outside today to find a swarm of bees waiting for me. Since making the hive warmer there has been a vast increase in the amount of new bees there (although they still have not spread out much but they have a bit) and I now seem to have...
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    Slow progress.

    Sorry, I checked my records and there was more than one frame of sealed brood; just not a lot of visible larvae. I got the bees from my local association and they get them from mid Wales every year. Every time I've inspected them they have had both sealed and unsealed honey as well as plenty of...
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    Slow progress.

    The dummy board is at the outer frame, there are porter bee escapes in the crownboard, and then I just have the roof on top of that. I think this was a nuc that was freshly made and there wasn't much brood; only a about a frame of brood if I remember rightly.
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    Slow progress.

    Thanks for the quick response. To answer your question, yes I put the five frames in a brood box with six new frames and a dummy board. When I got the nuc I believe that the drone cells were already there plus they seem to be sticking to one frame? Thanks again.
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    Slow progress.

    Hello all. Sorry if I've done this wrong; I don't really use forums much. Straight to the point now, I have had my bees for around a month now and they seem to be doing fine. They fly in and out regularly and I can see plenty of pollen both in the hive and on the bees. But when I inspect the...
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