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What is this plant? The bees love it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A ladder? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Devastated... My swarm which I caught swarmed today. Brand new hive, now empty... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Then I have gone from one to 3 in the space of a month!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If I find another queen is it worth leaving them to get on? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Could have been an easy way to spend 50£ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah! Saw the new marked buckfast in the swarm! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ps, here is the swarm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Help!!!! I got home from a kids party, went for a stroll in the field and found a swarm. I quickly caught them, put them in a nuc with frames, and whilst doing it realised that they were mine!!! A couple weeks ago, I mistakenly, accidentally dropped the queen, whilst in the cage whilst making...

Right, any one have any idea what an orange/brown rusty colour dust is from on bees? It is a pollen but not sure from which plant. Also a lot of bright yellow and very pale white pollen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here here!

How long will it take a hive to draw out 4 new frames and get back up to full size after an artificial swarm? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you, will read! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So, I have just split the hive into another. Hopefully it has prevented swarming given that they were on the verge, full of queen cells! Hope that that does the job. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sorry I meant in rebuilding the colony. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk