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Alas, global warming means warmer winters and wetter summers Make sure you have notifications turned on for all his posts. Bees are...

Re-reading this thread your comment " I have been keeping and teaching beekeeping for years, now," struck me as incompatible with...

Small colony on roof doing ok. Four frames of brood and good stores.

@Antipodes Why Funny? I’ve seen it.

How does a grub that size get through the omf? Maybe it was born and grew in the detritus if the board has been left in.

Up Up Up!!!! Lovely picture. Did you spot the queen? You sometimes see her running over the tops of the bees into the box

Even if its 'aggresive drones' that are the problem, then surely its a far more probable that you have a single hot hive somewhere near...

Far more to temperament than meets the eye, definitely. A four year old queen at one apiary has been a star performer in all aspects...

Don’t! I’m more envious than you 😂😂 At least you have sunshine.

Yes you can do that but it’s so messy If you’re not in a hurry I’m sure you can move them up before winter.

One of our hives swarmed into a neighbours hedge once when we lived in Cumbria. My party trick was to put my bare hand into the middle...

15 years.....still feels like 2 sometimes Try putting a brood box with foundation on top of all that wild comb (scrape the lid and eat...

Both are features of CBPV too. Interesting thought though. Tracheal mites haven't been common since beekeepers used Thymol and Formic...

Yes...it's very worth doing. Re-queening is sometimes a challenge with these bees but there is always the option of uniting with another...

If I an iffy colony I don't destroy them, I either requeen with a better tempered raised Q or unite with another colony.