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I know thanks. :eek: My queen is marked and really easy to spot, which is why I was worried. The eggs are easy to spot too. More worry. I'm not feeding them, they're weighed done with what they're bringing in so feeding not needed. That's what surprised me, they were previously a tiny new...

My last post was a cartwheel of happiness. I knew it was tempting fate! My last inspection had a brimming brood box and a pretty full super (surprising for a month old colony). I couldn't find the queen but there were plenty of eggs and she's clipped. I've made up a super and today went to...

Hi Menteth. I'm a born again beekeeper :) In my old hives, I once had bees that were not keen to shift. It certainly isn't recommended and lots of people will say it's not advisable but I put a little bit of honey on my foundation sheets (carefully and quickly to avoid robbing and mobbing!) and...

Well done, it looks good at least!

May I be like a proud parent who drones on (see what I did there)? May I ? I left my bees for a two week holiday. Before I left they were a small colony, only three weeks old. Dumping drone brood and I'd hoiked out a wax moth larva. They were super placid but I feared the worst. I'm back and...

Thanks all. It's because my colony is tiny that I was worried. I'm afraid I caved in and did a re-visit today but all seemed well. Interestingly, drones were getting in but not having an easy time of it so it might well have been a drone cull. Small colony, not a huge amount of stores, maybe...

Ahh go on, put a jittery newbie's mind at rest ;)

I'm a very rusty beekeeper, back to it after a few years break. I found a wax moth larva in my hive today. Unwelcome but not unexpected as it's a new colony and very small yet. It's the first time I've found one and co-incidentally the first time I've seen almost formed pupae at the hive...

Cheerful bee-keeping by committee Evicted a wax moth larvae, muttered to self, worried about eggs and larvae, concurrently refereed argument in my own local brood (human) perched nearby about whether or not I was disturbing the bees, and held forth with neighbour about why some people eat comb...

Oh, and it's not noticeably lighter, once it's full of bees!

I've had Cedar and I now have a poly hive. Why? In all honesty, cost. my first two were stolen and I can't afford cedar any more. I've bought one that's INTERNALLY compatible with national hive parts, which makes it a little bit bigger externally (not so you'd really notice but bigger all the...

genius!

Hello, I've just re-started beekeeping after a break of three years (and a house move) so I'd love to meet an experienced local beekeeper. I've got a small (vulnerable) colony of beautifully placid bees between Flaunden and Bovingdon. I'm not so green that I'm checking them every day but I'm...

Small scale bee keeping. Hello. I've just re-started beekeeping after a theft so this seems a fitting first post. I had two cedar hives on an allotment. They were taken over Winter in January 2009. I found this so depressing and demoralising that I stopped beekeeping altogether having saved...