Recent content by Derbyshire dame

Have had the experts look and there's no queen as I thought. Have my name on the list for a swarm. I was so proud of myself getting them through the winter and then........ Still not only me, lots of the 'experts' have lost colonies too. Start again

Thanks guys. I feel a lot better now. I'll look for the queen again next inspection

No but as a newbie I've read that concave probably means trouble

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Just looked in my have lots of dead bees on the floor. Only one clean frame with stores others have cells capped, very dark brown almost black flat not concave. No sign of the queen. This is my first season, I'm stumped, any ideas?

My first full season, what's the first thing I need to do. Bees are still alive but I haven't looked in yet

Having managed to keep my bees alive over winter help! What do I do next. They've been flying today but I don't know what I need to do, like when do I put the queen excluder back on etc: :sos: