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Called to two swarms today, one on the Aston Martin plant, they offered us a tour of the plant as a thank you. The second just as...

Also see if there are any registered pest control companies in your area and contact them. Sometimes they are paid to remove colonies of...

Went in yesterday and found a frame of eggs and a very small new Queen. Yay. Patience, dear boy, patience...

I took early retirement at 55 having worked out that I didn't need shed loads of money to live as long as I had health and happiness. It...

I cheated though: I bought half the company :D I really couldn't face going back to IT and I can't deny that I've been kind of ignoring...

A few ideas spring to mind. The first queen may have hatched and killed the larvae in the other two queen cells. If they are still...

I've tried different Queens over the years but always return to Buckfast bees.

The values it provides are not new, Farrar (one of the first entomologists to apply scientific analysis on beekeeping) spoke about all...

I have given to queens so much space as they can use. I use 3 Langstroth boxes for brood and no excluder. The lowest box will be...

A quick fix would be Move the queen excluder upwards so that the two supers with the fullest squares are at the top and in August move...

There is some debate in the scientific community about whether the queen is plenipotentiary (there is no laying limit) or she is...

As a point of interest, the Queen goes on more than one mating flight, from one of David Evans many great blogs, the typical Queen will...

A gueen makes several mating flights. It needs 1-3 good days to visit to drone swarm. Let the queen lay so much as it can. Then for...

Have you placed any super on top of the breeding nest? Do you use queen excluder?

Yes, currently queen excluder then 3 supers of drawn foundation which does contain some stores.