Recent content by mitzy

I have a hive which went queenless last month, there was queen cell but after 4-5 weeks there was no sign of a queen. I order one online and it arrived today and I went to add her and found eggs and larvae! It is a really strong hive with lots of bees , I was wondering if I should put some...

I've a similar issue. I've been applying apiguard to my 3 hives and one hive seems to be having a few more mites than the other two, but not dramatic number. But what really worries me is at the weekly checks it looks like there are a huge number of live baby mites on the floor - has anyone...

I've recently done an artificial swarm but not sure what's happened. The hive was really busy and filling up its second super. There were no QCs, but I decided to do an artificial swarm anyway as there were sooo many bees. I moved the hive a couple of metres away, set a new hive in original...

Hiya - I'm new to this forum and looking for some advice and thoughts. I went into the winter with 3 hives and gave them a quick check today. There were a reasonable number of bees in each hive, queen wasn't seen. One hive definitely had eggs and brood so sigh of relief there. In hive two...