Recent content by Dicklinda

thanks for the input, will need to wait on a channge in teh weather, frosty with snow showers at present!

We have 4 hives, three have brood (2 on double brood boxes and the other on single brood plus a super) and they are busy bringing in lots of pollen when the weather permits. The other colony has no brood and has been very active in the hive since January (it has a clear perspex crown board)...

We want to rearrange our apiary and need to move 2 of our hives about 6 to 8 feet and change the direction they face by about 90 degrees. It is very cold here and has been below zero for the majority of January so wondered if we could move them in one stage as there have been virtually no bees...

yes we had removed all but 2 frames of brood & stores which definitely had nothing on them on the Thursday but when we rechecked after they swarmed there was a brand new queen cup on the side of the frame which I have a photo of the day before with nothing. There was a sealed queen cell on the...

We have all our fingers & toes crossed that she did return! It was definitely the prime swarm - I was working in the garden & saw them go and we still have a lot of bees in the hive - we have a Perspex crown board so can see them. they are fairly drinking the sugar syrup now, but just unsure as...

We have had a small colony of bees for 3 months and all was going well till we found queen cups on thursday and split these into three nucs. On Friday the main hive swarmed, we managed to get them all including the queen into a box which we emptied onto a sheet in front of the hive and we...