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Hey guys , no the queen was not clipped and yes there was eggs, larvae unsealed and 3 or four frames of sealed brood including drone brood . I have removed all other queen cells to .Ive also added a new brood chamber with pulled and unpulled wax hopefully this may keep em occupied really don't...

Unfortunately down to miserable weather i have not been as regular at checking my hives. This Saturday just gone I checked the forecast we had 15 degrees plus in the afternoon so i set about my saturday chores part of which meant nipping out for a couple of hours ,, on my return my neighbour...

There are two similar answers that i feel have helped me make a choice ,, my bees have been bred from my own queens which i have reared from my first buckfast hive, which I suppose when mated have mated with bees local to the area with the same forage and cheshire climate so to take my bees...

Hello beeks was hoping someone out there could advise me,, Am hoping to move to Italy later this year, can I take my Bees with me I don't know if there are any laws, rules, quarantine etc ????

ooh definitely a wild one hive maker

nature itself is a good indicator of when the summer really does come to an end just watch for that sudden influx of giant wolf spiders you find in your house that you havnt seen all summer they aint keen on bad weather and now its time to move indoors :)

one of my hives swarmed last week and the curious thing was that although there were thousands of bees flying about in swarm mode there was still serious bee traffic going to and from the hive as though these bees were oblivious to the rest that were swarming,, and what an amazing sight a swarm...

funnily enuff midland I have plenty of books thats the problem each author has there own opinions that differ from each other hence i asked the question on the forum to get help from keepers that have had this situation occur with there hives, which i thought was the point of a forum, but you...

Lack of confidence and experience has brought me to the Forum again. last autumn one of my hives consisted of two deep brood boxes and supers they had an excellent summer growing into a massive colony, they have overwintered well and consequently at this moment i have again a huge colony of bees...

Im only a third year beekeeper but one thing I have noticed is that every spring when I first start opening my hives after winter. Is that that all of my bees seem a bit miffed off with my presence, I put it down to the fact that they ain't been disturbed for a while, and suddenly the roof of...

Hey JEP , yeah I have another two hives set up ready for the swarming season so room at the inn , I think I am gonna have a go with this new queen , where I live there is a corridor on the welsh border where the beekeepers are really proud of there AMM queens and are trying to get an overlap of...

hey margaret thats quite funny because I had mold and a little bit of black gunky stuff on the outer bbs. Let me know your results please . regards Andy

Thanks JEP I tend to agree with you but just let me throw something into the mix here: one of my hives is ballistic I have never seen so many bees this early on, also I have been fancying having a go with an AMM colony, and I have access to a genetically acceptable AMM Welsh Queen Bee, would it...

They had a double 14x12 brood and two supers full of stores in autumn more than enough I thought .

Thank you very much for your input I think what I have gleaned from this is that I can get the same experience using my national hive along the same lines as a warre i.e. foundation less but I have the added advantage that I can still inspect. Ta very much and watch this space :)