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Which is best to put honey in ? cold jar or warm jar Thanks Rob

Which is best to put honey in ? cold jar or warm jar Thanks Rob

I have lost one hive the other hive was busy today flying in and out so fingers cross

thanks for that, nice and local to us

thanks for all the comments, we were on just single brood but had removed the QE when we put our apiguard on both hives were light on stores, its been a very poor year here, very wet so not much honey at all we havent been able to take any off :( we'll just leave well alone we're fully...

we have 2 colonies, one is doing well so no problems there the second hive has the older queen (2 years), it was doing well, nice and strong but then has halved in size. The whole colony including the queen has moved out of the brood box into the super. Question is - should we remove the...

not sure how to do that.....

http:// we think we can see larvae in 2 of these queen cells but are not sure. opinions please, thanks

we've got a brood box but the foundation is new and not drawn, we do have drawn super foundation.... advice please

do you mean make it a brood and a half?

8 frames like this in brood box

so we've been back to the hive today to put some syrup feed on and do a quick check as it was quite warm and dry. this is the pics of whats inside, [/IMG] we sacrificed another few drone cells we found and one or two still had varroa in but we didn't see any on bees like we did at first...