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Dispite being a very dull miserable day bees are very active, hundreds of comeing and goings, hive must ne doing Well at moment, seen to he more active now than in august, proberly due to ivy being in flower, also butternut squase still flowering Well in my poly tunnel. Shld i feed them while...

Thankyou for your offer of donateing us some bees very kind of you plz stay intouch ,

Evening everyone , can any one tell me, if it is normal for bees to remove drone young from there capped cells and discard them outside the hive? I know towards the end of the year they kick out the adoult drones to save food , but do they chuck out the developing drone brood this time of year...

Thankyou, will try to find them books,

Hi all you experienced bee keepers, can any1 tell me the name of a decent book of bee keeping plz, as a newbee I want to learn asmuch about bees as possible, so wld be very grateful for any advise, thankyou.

Well they are all very determined to get ther job done, wot ever the cost,

Proberly that's why mine are covered them SD grow slot of them , also marrow, and butternut squash, that produces lots of pollen

Can any1 tell me why a lot of my bees come back to the hive looking very yellow, it looks like they are covered in pollen, is this right? As most pollen is carried on the legs in pollen sacks , or are there sum bres ther just don't clean themselves ,

There is actually 10combs in my tbh that bees have filled , as there were 2 topbar combs already in hive wen i put in swarm, combs from a colony that i lost so I think that helped the latest swarm settle in alot better,

I was told to put a tray if sugar candy inside the hive near the end comb, is this right? Or is there a better way, ?

I have rockwool to put in roof space wen its gets colder, on a recent bee course we were told that in woodland leaf litter there is a mite that eats verroa mite, If placed in hive, I have tried this as up to now haven't seen any mite on bees, weather that's due to leaf litter or ive just been...

It's a closed bottom, have check the hive today, there was no comb being formed on the 3 bars, so. Took 2 away and left 1 as the end comb they have built 4 smaller combs comeing out from the main comb for some reason, so didn't want to squash them, have i done right?, there are alot of capped...

Put 3 new bars in as the ones I had between follower boards were full with comb and honey, also capped young, not sure wot bees are as they were a swam I collected about 9 weeks ago, tho they seemed to have done very well, also they looked overcrowded on the 8 combs they have built already...

Hi I'm Andy, would like to get some advise on if it will be safe for me to open my top bar hive to see if the new top bars I put in 3weeks ago has any comb built on it, the weather is dry, temp is 16degrees, overcast, light wind, bees very active takeing in lots of pollen, so any advise wld b...

Neil thankyou very much, wld b very interested in haveing contact with u if you would like my emaik address please contact me and I will send you it, also would like to know more about bees, hope to hear from you, thankyou,