Recent content by meirch1

Just inspected and single charged queen cup found, queen not seen but eggs and larvae present and plenty of stores and room in 14x12 brood box with super above. I plan to look again in a day or two. If the queen cup is progressing what do members think I should do?:thanks: heatwave into 3rd day!

General duties Hive 1, saw q last years girl, two full deep frames of brood, eggs, larvae and sealed, plenty of pollen and some early nectar, temper 3/5. Hive2, saw q another from last year, 4 frames brood, e,l,s. temper 2/5, Hive 3, a bit of an end of season mix of nuc and shook swarm last...

Apiary visit 1st jan 2013! 3 colonies checked for varroa 3 weeks ago, one colony had a few so treated with oxalic today, honey super moved to lightest hive from heaviest, will add candy this week. All clusters look well.

Update The brood and a half is doing well, our local BKS tutor gave me a positive vibe, and the bees don't seem to mind! As part of my make up is to do things that others find strange including beekeeping, the fact that Beekeepers find this method a little idiosyncratic and the bees don't mind...

bee-smillieAre there any diehard enthusiasts for this method out there, I recently accidentally trapped my queen above the excluder and the super is full of brood!( thought I had lost her as I couldn't find her in the brood box). Anyway next inspection there she was on the super frame and very...

Thanks for all this, when I went to do the cull of cells and split, it looks like the NEW queen has got there first - all cells seen yesterday are now torn down, I hope my 2 inspections in 2 days haven't disturbed to the point of workers killing the virgin, would she have mated yet, or is that...

Sorry, I didn't mention I have at least 5 queen cells hanging at the base of one frame and 1 on another.

How do I move queen cells to an empty box and how much brood I have a single colony at present and my marked queen has gone (last seen 14 days ago), with some of my bees, I seem to have plenty left, but do not wish to have casts, and wish to make an increase into a spare empty hive...

Hi I have just bought some bees and placed them in my new apiary (consists of one National Hive - brood box plus super). The chap I bought them from arranged the 6 brood and honey bearing frames as follows:- Warm way, front to back ; 2 new frames of wired foundation at entrance end, 4 frames of...