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I love fireworks and I look forwards to choreographing our display every year, although that being said we do go to my grans house to do them and that's some middle of nowhere countryside

Yeah it just sounds like the cold weather has slowed the queens laying, probably because the bees cannot heat the rest of the frames. I wouldn't worry as long as they have bees and stores.

Could we have a real picture? Or a link to some defra/fera websites documenting/describing it And may I suggest swirlbrood as a name or even danish swirlbrood

So my split I made about a month ago has raised a new queen and her mother was a skinny black AMM queen but she is a fat and very yellow bee New queen lookalike honeyfieldsbeefarm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/JRB_1040aa.jpg Old queen lookalike...

If they have been queenless for that long are you sure they don't have laying workers yet.

Beetight is the bees knees it's very easy to use and keeps good track of your hives, due to archived colony's I'm probably going to have to buy premium. I'm unsure about having archived colonies counting towards used colonies simply because even if you are a small beekeeper due to giving away...

Yep have just split my hive, i now have one nucleus and one hive

I am a junior beekeeper of 1 hive in the south of England who is a bit of a novice but has been keeping bees for over two years now. I currently have a prolific hive and am taking steps to avoid a swarm(regular checks and if necessary a split).

Yeah, the only thing is that I squished all queen cups last year, and the bees pretty much just swarmed anyways. in the wally shaw pdf he says that squishing queen cells doesn't work, which fits with my experience. anyways last inspection i found an egg(not larvae) in a queen cup