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Normally I let a nuc build up and transfer it to a hive. If you want to keep it as a nuc I know the usual method is to periodically...

Or make a board that will fit on top with a big hole cut out, put it on top and put whatever boxes you like on top.

Certainly. If they are unmanaged and doing well, they must have something going for them when you consider all the reports of winter loss.

I was posting a queen today and the lady behind the counter said that there is a beehive in the garden next to her that has been...

First grafts of the 2024 season done today, 400 cells. Let's hope for some decent weather for the first round of matings.

Defensive bees can prove very difficult to requeen, often bumping off your expensive purchase or accepting her only to bump her off...

I think the manky old comb is a really good attractant...I also find that a box that bees have previously lived in helps ...otherwise I...

I echo your whinge @BeeBird, similar forecasts up here. I'm itching to get a look into my hives and just hoping the poor weather...

I live just outside Keswick and it was 7*C today, our weather forecast says 8*C tomorrow then 9*C Thursday. Then we will reach the dizzy...

No-one on here I can think of would advocate "matchstick ventilation" it's an old and out-of-date concept sadly still taught by some...

No, he wasn't. He was using it as an example of what a new beek may have learnt before joining the forum, and hence an idea the forum...

Mr Pirate. This job is not an easy one. We have spates of being invaded by trolls. One I can quote said, before he was removed, that we...

Appreciate the thinking here fian - left field as it is (vs. the consensus in relation to varroa). My wife, who is a fetal medicine...

I would likely say varroa too , there are some perforated cappings amongst the brood. The bees must have some hygenic traits and are...

Demaree method - slight modification of the original 1894 method which also allows for making increase Most methods of swarm prevention...