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I think its failing, it was never the best to begin with. Last year started this hive from an existing to try and prevent it swarming, but it never really grew as I expected through the summer.

I've been and had an inspection and it doesnt look very good. On two frames toward the enterance there are ant eggs, I think this hive is on its way out. The colony is looking really weak. Would it be an option to removed the offending frames and the others that have fallen out of use and put...

I have ants crawling about over the coversheet in one corner of my hive. The colony is pretty weak and I'm waiting to see if it improves over the newt few weeks before I requeen. What can I do about the ants. Is it possible to use the liquid poision traps - the ants carry the posision back to...

I'll leave them well alone, thanks for the quick response.

We have had a lot of snow over the last day, we have had the best part of a foot so far with more to come. I haven't seen it like this for the last 5 years and its the first time for me with hives in this weather. What should I do with the hives, I have Segeberger Poly hives. So far I have...

I have a hive the I am concerned will not do well over the winter. After feeding it looks very full of stores and I have only a single frame with any brood on it. There are two undrawn frames near the hive entrance, is it too late in the year to move them to the centre to give more brood...

Formic Acid, total dyslexia moment

That's a relief. I'm going to do the first Folic Acid at the weekend, hopefully it should have cooled down a bit by then.

Well it looks like it is going wrong with my strongest hive. It looks like the queen has been caught above the excluder and there are clusters of open brood on two frames. The brood box is looking very empty. I didn't manage to see the queen but I have removed the excluder and nadired the...

I have two single brood chamber hives each with a deep super on. Neither super is full or capped, though I have had one extraction earlier this summer from one hive. The nectar seems to be slowing and the weather hasn't been great for the last month, I'm debating to remove the queen guard and...

I'm going to try them with a super and see what happens. I'm new to this so here is a silly question, is there any reason not to put another brood and super on at the same time given the speed they have been working?

The temptation of getting some wild honey off this hive this year really excites me.

Last Tuesday one hive swarmed which I recaptured from the top of an apple tree and started off in a new brood box. I'm pretty new to this and wow there were a lot of bees, but very very calm as well. I have inspected the hive twice since then and it seems to have a really good nectar flow and...

Hello Everyone from an unwitting accidental apiarist. I'm quite new to beekeeping and stumbled into it more by accident than plan. My wife was gifted a hive last summer. Having got our initial hive through the winter I now have three on the go and am finding the whole experience fascinating...