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that was an interesting read thanks

the queen from the original hive is at another out apiary and was seen today this one is here at my home apiary. are you saying that the VQ may have gone on her 2nd mating flight and the bees was giving her a good send off

so did an artificial swarm on the 19th April 5 frames in an nuc 1 charged Q cell and 1 capped. depending if the capped one has hatched that would give VQ 9 days to mate. Yesterday 29th i saw the bees very busy as if they was swarming all over the front of the nuc 20 mins later all settled down...

I have my wax capping from my last extraction(clean and free from honey) is there any way I can give these back to the bees to help them build up for the season if so how and how many other beekeepers do this your thought please:judge:

My girls are taking 8 oz fondant from the crown board in 5 days, so how much is to much.do we keep feeding or the bees store it like a hamster.just thinking are the cells going to be full before HM starts laying im on single broad,ive hefted and the hive dont feel low on stores your thoughts...

All done qx off supers off all happy me and the girls hefted hives very heavy Cheers guys

i hold my hands up bad beekeeping

i hold my hands up bad beekeeping

thanks for advise more concerned about the stress factor for the bees apposed to the honey :rules: i was hoping that freezing temp would cause the bees to for tight cluster in the brood box giving me the chance to lift super off quickly hoping no bees will not be up their and just putting a...

Ok so i have two hive each with a super on still with the QX on. The hives are full so happy to take supers away the main thing is the QX just incase it so cold and the bees decide to move up there the Q will be left behind. Could i leave hoping they cluster in the brood take off the supers and...

that's a good example on how to do it thanks

are you using a vaporiser

i tried using an uncapping comb and to be honest is was bobbins very small pieces of wax which clog up my filters, so the question is how many use the comb than an uncapping knife

Cheer mate

so your thoughts on how to move bees that have started to build comb on a trunk of a tree 6 comb. i was thinking on putting a wooden box over the top hoping they would build into it, or scrap into a hive and move.this is about 20ft up the trunk :hairpull::calmdown::rules: