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You have one of , if not THE, biggest bee farmer in the UK just south of you and he's had a dreadful year. I follow Murray McGregor...

Re-reading this thread your comment " I have been keeping and teaching beekeeping for years, now," struck me as incompatible with...

That's probably because the nuc had been denuded of all its flying bees (the ones that exhibit the excessive defensiveness) and the...

It's not defeat, just tactical withdrawal ;)

Ludicrous advice. As if you'd want to recombine if the requeening failed

Study the combs and look for aberrations - web trails, frass (wax moth poo) or cocoons hidden under the frame lugs, between bottom bars...

I am getting a similar situation locally. I try and explain to them that they need to change their queens for the good of us all but...

So you're checking for eggs at 12 days after giving the cells? How old were the cells...how many days after graft? My cells are...

Far more to temperament than meets the eye, definitely. A four year old queen at one apiary has been a star performer in all aspects...

You assume it's the Queens genetics and not the sperm she is holding that is creating those subgroups of sisters you are seeing that...

I have a lot of sympathy with the baseline of this thread; don't tolerate aggressive bees. It's something I've been saying for a long...

it's all the rage now, always easier to blame someone else, petrol, and walk away rather than tackle the issue.

Seems bit extreme? We all get Iffy colonies Sometimes really iffy Here's one. We requeened it and they were fine It's not as if you...

It's a personal observation with a sample of one beekeeper but for almost all my beekeeping time I've thought many of the problems...

Warre did, as I believe Bernhard Heuval did/does. ICKO in France sell a warre frame extractor (at least, they certainly did up to quite...