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It's not just George Osborne half the big businesses in the UK seem to be doing exactly the same. The governments own efficiency tsar Philip Green built himself an empire which now owns companies such as Topshop, Topman, Burtons, Miss Selfridge and British Home Stores. In 2005 he awarded...

Hi Kazmcc, I think that the queen managed to get stuck on the outside of the hive so some of the bees followed her and started comb building on the outside while the rest of the bees stayed inside the hive and started to build emergency queen cells. You can see the original thread here...

I returned to the site today having moved the bees to move back into the hive and removing the external comb on my last visit. As soon as I opened the hive I noticed the queen happily wandering about on one of the frames. There was also plenty of eggs and brood so she seems healthy enough. I...

The comb has only been built over the last four days so a lack of eggs wouldn't surprise me if there is a new queen on the outside of the hive. There haven't been any queen cells in the hive for a new queen to hatch from though?

I've checked the wax and there were not any eggs in it.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I did that yesterday. But I would have thought that one of us, my brother was also there as another set of eyes, would have seen the marked queen in such a small set of bees. If it had been a swarm should there not have been queen cells in the hive? We checked...

Sorry the pictures are missing. I will try and fix it. You can see the images in my album

One of my colonies at an out apiary has started to build comb on the outside of the hive. Last Thursday (9/9/2010) when I went to inspect the hives I noticed that a number of bees were congregating on the front of one of the hives (see picture below) I initially presumed that the congregation...

Hello Anne, I spoke to Ian last week and everything had already gone.