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    What's flowering as forage in your area

    Every sympathy/empathy... have just watched a bee moving from clover to clover without stopping. No nectar...
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    Queen sickness?

    There's posh!
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    Queen sickness?

    You do come up with some (unfortunately!) unforgettable images JBM... Fortunately though, I don't seem to go to events where there are bowls of punch. I've worried in the past that esp my top bar bees,w/o foundation constraints I thought? produced so many drones in the spring, but then, why...
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    Queen sickness?

    Well I'm just about ready here for a conspiracy theory involving gangs of roaming queen rustlers... Someone has only to lay a little patch of eggs it seems before several queen cells appear and the laying queen isn't to be seen. I don't understand what is going on out there. I treated a hive...
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    LimeWatch UK

    Too dry here too I guess. Dew on grass this morning but very little fragrance and only a couple of bumble bees on the lime despite masses of those lovely flowers. Browning already in patches. (At least while underneath them I had a garden tiger moth perch on my hand, which was a treat.)
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    Supers Empty

    None of mine is completely out of stores but I suspect the dearth of nectar has stopped egg laying.
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    Mating flight?

    Certainly am not feeling a blessed beekeeper in any other way! But if every time you see an odd looking skinny orange dog thing outside you just think, well that's a very peculiar looking and sounding dog, you're going to be a long time seeing a fox...
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    Mating flight?

    Twice. Where the queen was I can't tell you, but certainly have seen a substantial cloud of bees fly out like a swarm, hang in a nearby bush for a while and return home at time of mating, not swarming as we think of it.
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    CBPV that won't go away, or die off

    Have had personal experience of CBPV on only 3 separate occasions now. The 2 colonies which went down fast were prolific pale coloured bees. My colony of dark bees who caught it did survive. This year I have 3 with unrelated queens who have it but none has succumbed yet. These are all quite old...
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    CBPV that won't go away, or die off

    How do you know changing the queen will resolve the problem, unless you know which kind of queen is likely to be more resistant?
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    Drone laying queen or laying workers?

    Yes. I now remember thinking this last spring - but seem to have just made the same mistake again. :mad:
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    What's flowering as forage in your area

    Big unclipped box here humming like a swarm in the sunshine today ... full of bees collecting pale yellow pollen. Such a joy to watch them.
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    Dark wax

    If - if - wax is clean enough for candles to burn without smoking even if they are darker than the show bench requires, I really don't understand why people are mad keen for paleness, showing aside. People like the colour of my candles because they are darker and different, and have been happy...
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    What's flowering as forage in your area

    I was terribly excited to see a dandelion out yesterday!
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    2nd Feb Webinar - Murray McGregor

    Yes I enjoyed it too. Many thanks for a very interesting and useful evening! - And great to be able to glimpse you Murray & Jolanta even if we can't actually meet you!!
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