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Heat perhaps, all that extra room for the bees to heat

and still am under 19....

place the travelling box on the roof of your hive, open the entrance, the bees can live in there until you get your kit, then you'll be able to hive the bees. Just make sure you put the nuc box on the roof of the hive, or take the hive away and place it there

no it's absolutely fine, it goes dark from the debris left from the young

Absolutely fine, well, I've never done it, but I know many who do

I'm sure others will be able to provide you with a much better answer but you probably just have a virgin queen, you may not have found her because she was out mating, too small or just hiding! Give them some more time, you should see workers polishing cells ready for laying and if they get low...

I don't think it matters too much, but the entrance is parallel to where the frames are going to go rather than perpendicular. Nice hives though! I should really give building some hives a go sometime

To make things even more confusing TBH can be 'top bar hive' too (like in my info)

Welcome to beekeeping and the forum! TBH I can go a whole season and getting away with only a couple of stings and my seconds hive went together fine Happy Beekeeping

last saturday I went through my hive which are on 7 frames of brood for queen cells. I only found one on the edge of a frame which I destroyed after finding eggs and seeing the queen. My only thought is that when I saw the queen she looked different to how i remember the queen looking before...

must be a trend ;)

I put a cast in a BB late last year, ignored them, thought they wouldn't make it but they're now on 8 frames of brood... well worth it!

If you're running deep frames, put one shallow frame in the hive and the bees will build drone comb on the bottom of it which you can cut off as and when you choose. It seems to me like a very long process destroying individual drone cells.....