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    new swarm

    Many thanks for all of your help and advice. The swarm seems to be happy and settled. I must say that I find the above comment typical of a certain type of bulletin board lurker, and not unique to this place. To go to the effort of searching my posts before spitting out this sort of abuse...
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    new swarm

    So what do I do? I have a swarm and a load of comb stuck to the crown board, in the empty super box, sitting on a fully framed up brood box. Should I just put the brood box on top? S8
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    new swarm

    A friend rang me (a deeply amateur beekeeper with one hive) to tell me that she had a swarm of bees in her garden. That the swarm had been sitting on a thistle for about four days, in the rain. And what should she do. Anyhow, we scooped it up into a pillowcase and brought it about two miles to...
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    supers

    thanks all for this. I will have a really good look this evening in the brood box to see if there is a fundamental problem. I don't believe there is. The varroa treatment I have used is Api Life. Is that no good? I put it on in October. As for the rather snitty "I hope they have found a good...
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    supers

    I am, as I have always been, a bit incompetent. I have one hive. I got it from one of our dear admins and it has done v well. I took no honey from it last year. A little the year before (thin and horrid) which I replaced with sugar. This year I got a rammed jammed super in late June. Took off...
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    new swarm

    I left them all. Lesson learn't, I guess. Ta.
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    new swarm

    So what did I do wrong? Hive 2, the hive with the new swarm clearly (it became pretty clear almost immediately) had come from Hive 1. Hive 2 has gone like gangbusters, has two supers on and should give some honey this w'end. We've already taken a jar or 5 about a month ago. Hive 1 is very sad...
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    beekeeping courses

    I live in E Sussex. I have two hives. We get by, the hives and me. But I don't really know what I am doing. It's all hit and miss (and a bit of help, thanks, from this forum). I had a look at the Plumpton bee courses. There's one for intermediates (no qualification) but it's 30 weeks (sort of...
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    new swarm

    I am in Piltdown, East Sussex. I was very kindly offered a nuc by Heather, who pops in here from time to time. It looks as if the bees have not come from Hive 1. But this evening is a bit thunderous and I didn't risk going in too far. Plenty of bees in the super below the queen excluder. Hive...
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    new swarm

    thanks all. I will have a proper look tonight. As always, advice very much appreciated. S8
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    new swarm

    Hello again. I have two hives. A full one, with which I had a muddle last year that this forum helped me with. It's a brood box and a super, with queen excluder above the super (don't ask), and another super. There's nothing doing in the top super and I went to have a look at it with my nine...
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    bees on asters

    In my garden, there is a bee that is much more common on my asters than my honey bees. It's like a large fly, v shaped wings, and with orrange sides to a dark abdomen. What is it? Lots of them S8
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    extracting honey

    Many thanks for your advice and reassurance. I decided to overwinter as a colony and a half, took some honey from the frames that did not have brood, moved the excluder onto the top, peered at the queen, fed with syrup and will put some of the new varroa treatment in later this week. So from...
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    extracting honey

    so what I should do is to take out the excluder and put it above the super to treat the whole thing as a brood chamber? How do I over-winter? And why don't I have honey in the brood chamber (well, apart from the frames at the end). The middle frames in the brood chamber are largely honey free...
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    extracting honey

    Well I took your advice and curled up with a bee book while keeping an eye on my supers and honey. My plan was to wait till this weekend to try to extract honey from about five frames of super although I was baffled as to why my supers weren't filling very fast. And here it all starts to get a...
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