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They are at the end of my very long garden with no rear access so not too many worries about vandals... Right, I have been down, a corner of the roof has failed due to the large rock I placed on the top. The metal reinforcer has bent, and the screw has come out. This then made the crownboard...

No, all kit still accounted for- just weird roof/crownboard arrangement. Will amend if I go down and find the brood box empty :eek:

That's my worry. There was a huge lump of rock on the top. :( Will update after I have been back down. I have covered the gap with a heavyweight blanket for now.

I have been down to my hives and one of the roofs is partly off as well as the crownboard :( it must have happened over night, and now I think I have probably lost a colony- no signs of life even though it is just under 10 Celsius. I am going to suit up in a bit and go sort it out...

Are in the local association? You could appeal for a newbee to come help you? Where roughly are your bees?

I mainly watched too- and saw the same. Some seemed so weighed down they could barely walk. If they are taking this much pollen in then there as often as they have in the past few days, there will be no room to swing a very tiny cat/mouse/varroa mite in there.

They are great-very pleased with them. Went together a dream one I downloaded their instructions.

Aylestone! Right up near Soar Valley way on the Glen Parva border :)

That makes sense. I was getting worried that I had assembled them completely wrong! I am can go and get hammer happy :D

Thank you :) I can start gluing/hammering now then :)

Having a brain blank so beware- this is a stupid question and I am accepting of the fact that it might attract equally stupid answers just for fun :) . Building National super boxes- do they just sit on top of each other, i.e with nothing holding them together? Or have I built them wrong and...

Get some tiny clippers, shear them and then make and sell very small stripey jumpers :hurray:

Just wanting to get opinions. I use smoke, and go down dressed head to toe in suit, gloves etc same as I would doing a full inspection. If you are simply lifting the roof to have a look through the crownboard and apply fondant or a feeder, how do you do it?

Found a porter escape in the grass, and a mouseguard. Have no idea how they got there. Then, realised that my very woolly jumper had lots of bees on it and that I had no suit or gloves on. I waited stock still until they got bored and flew away, then walked very quickly away. That is what...

Ok. I was starting to think that I had superhuman psychic powers. Turns out I know just enough to make me dangerous (probably) bee-smillie

Interesting... although I thought we knew that already? :nature-smiley-013:

All of the pollen mine were bringing in today was white too. What is that from?

Took the rocks off the top of the hives, watched bees. Ordered new kit.