Recent content by MissBeehavin'

My brood box is a 14 x 12 and they are not a large colony.

Thank you for your help Enrico. I have done an AS before to get this particular colony but plans to unite the colonies later on will be impossible if the hive raises another Q cell which I will then have to leave in. I am really trying to end this year with just the 2 I started with.

I understand it is their instinct but hoped they would have stuck with her a bit longer!

It was a slightly enlarged cell containing a grub surrounded by royal jelly. I did see the queen and she has been a fantastic queen all year laying 7+ frames.

I have cleaned out the Q cell and will see if it is repeated next weekend, am hoping it may be and one off because they have spent so much time inside due to weather. Have never united colonies so far.

Found an early Queen cell in one of my hives. The Queen/colony are just a year old & she has been laying brilliantly so far. I am feeding & have a super on from before the weather changed - why have the bees done this? I made up my mind not to use a rejected Queen to form another colony as I...

Rab Thanks for your advice

I have 2 colonies, one an AS from other, both re-queened this year. They are both healthy & slowly filling a super put on 2 weeks ago. Do I still need to inspect the brood frames every week at this time of year? - they were a bit tetchy & protective of their stores last week & I don't want to...