In "apiary A" we have 3 hives. Two are fine, but one has succumbed to laying workers. As its fairly late in our season for getting a Q mated, we don't fancy our chances with adding brood to the problem hive, so were planning to shake the bees out but there's very little space in the other hives...
The hive in question is in the valleys, near Pontypridd, and I'm also part of a team looking after hives on the roof of Cardiff University, School of Pharmacy, so smack in the middle of the city.
I have a similar question to OP. We have a (national) hive which we got quite late so it's quite a small colony (5 frames mainly brood, 4 frames mainly stores, 1 frame being drawn and 1 frame they seem to be systematically removing most of the foundation wax from?). A few weeks ago the brood...