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The Shropshire guys and girls are a really friendly bunch. ENJOY!

So which cillit bang do you use - the orange limescale and shine or the green grease and sparkle?

Mine are 2 yr old, first year they chewed a hole just above the entrance (i assume they were congested as i had reduced the entrance due to a plague of wasps) and last year they chewed themselves a skylight in one of the supers

I've also got paynes and you're right about the bees chewing holes. Do you use the entrance blocks that come with the maisemore hives? They're really flimsy and I've snapped 2 because the girls gummed up the entrance. maybe i'm just clumsy.

I soak mine in a large container of water / soda crystal solution and leave it for several hours/over night and rinse with bleach solution before rinsing again.

Thanks all - I feel much better. I still haven't shaken off newbie angst about everything and anything bee related.

Hi The bees and I have managed to get through our first winter together - hooray. But I've just had a request from a bee inspector to have a look at my bees next week. I haven't carried out the first inspection of the year because it's been too cold and the weather forecast for the proposed day...

There were only eggs/larvae on 2 frames - there may be more but i was rather distracted by the qc. The pattern was normal (no different from previously) larvae adjacent to capped brood eggs next to larvae. There's capped brood on 5 frames. There hasn't been a change in the amount of drone cells...

Having read all of your posts (thanks for the effort) I hope the following might be helpful. A newbee I may be, but I'm confident I can tell the difference between a drone cell and a queen cell with larva in it :) I bought the queen as part of a nuc this year and have kept it in its original...

Hi I inspected a hive yesterday prior to treating with Apiguard and found a queen cell. I also found the queen (who is from this year), along with eggs, larvae, stores etc and apart from a high wasp presence, for which I have placed traps and reduced the entrance everything else appears...