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Thanks for the replies and and advice guys. As it turned out it was fairly problematic. I found out that what the bees had swarmed into was an old abandoned nest. Opened up the cavity to reveal combs a full metre in width by maybe 75cm in depth. The biggest I've seen by a long way. The...

I've been asked to remove a relatively newly arrived swarm of bees from an old timber building which is part of a complex of buildings undergoing renovation just now. I took a trip over to look at them today. They arrived about 10 days ago and have taken up residence in a wall cavity. They are...

I wonder if anyone could give me advice on building a colony in a National from nuc size to full colony by taking them to OSR. Are there specific things I should be doing to direct them away from making honey towards making bees? Or is the simple answer just to keep feeding them frames of...