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Why didn't they respond like this to the first tray then? And all night? It's raining this morning and they're still all huddled together underneath. There are quite a few wasps about, at 8am and the guards were on top form.

Sorry, very newbee here but what's "nadiring"? I don't think I've heard of that before.

I have a similar problem, only far more bees, they're all over the hive. I've just posted a question about it all, and now reading this thread I'm panicking! Mine are bringing in a lot of pollen, different colours - there are a lot of dandelions and their relatives out in the field at the...

Hi, this is my first year so everything that happens is new! I have a National hive with pitched roof and a calm, happy colony which I obtained in early June. Apart from a couple of stings everything's been going well and we took off 30lbs of honey, still leaving one full super on for winter...

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Thank you, I just filled the feeder up today of course! On Wednesday when I do the inspection and get the spacing right I'll check if they're capping the syrup, last week they were only drawing new comb but I see that they've moved onto more frames now so maybe have capped syrup. They're...

Do they store propolis at all or is it used immediately? Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk

They are in full size box with 11 DNs. 5 have brood and capped honey, one side of 6th is being drawn. so there are still 5.5 frames empty. Poppy hey! That's good, we sowed loads and they're all up. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk

Thanks. Will check pms. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk

I think the spacing isn't right, when i put syrup in this morning i could see it isn't. I've been told that they'll stop taking syrup as they find natural sources. My bees came from a very well respected source locally, known for quality of Queens and colonies, and Master BK. Hive from one...

Whooppeee.. got to the end, now which frames were the brood on ... So our recently arrived nuc is expanding, plenty of young bees, new comb being drawn on new frames, spotted queen (big pink spot hint!), capped workers, few drone cells, larvae but there were so many bees on the brood frames...

"I think she's just confused as to terminology (still) by what I could make out on another thread all her frames are Hoffmans thus either SN4 (Shallow National Hoffmans) in the super and DN4 (Deep National Hoffman's) in the brood. The nuc was supplied with DN1 frames (Deep National standard) so...

I will put some insulation in tomorrow, I'm sure there's some of that Celotex lying around. The idea of keeping the whole brood box insulated around it is great, except that we have this lovely new cedar hive! Is there another way of keeping the brood box warmer, as well as insulating the roof?

My problem with the frames is that I have SN1s and the nucleus came on DNs so there's no frame spacing and the bees apparently aren't satisfied with the space hence the brace comb - I'm assuming. I'm trying to get coloured narrow spacers/ends but incredibly difficult to find them in small...

Thanks for your welcomes and ideas! The hole in the board has a 'plug' for the winter when insulated, I'll make some insulation for now, the weather has been colder than expected at the moment as well, although the bees are bringing in pollen. Someone else on here has drilled 3mm holes in...

Aha, now my question about condensation is dealt with - I have some condensation on each corner of my polycarb board and was wondering if I should put holes in it. It's in use right now but at inspection next week I can swap for the standard board and then drill and swap back. There's some...

Hello, I'm looking forward to reading through here, getting my questions answered and reading all the other issues in prep for when I have them! I'm keeping someone else's bees as she's away a lot and we just received the first nuc last week. I'm a beginner too (have done the beginner course...

Bee space & frame types There's no mention here of the frame types? I have SN frames in the brood box but just received a nuc and they're on DNs so now I need plastic ends so that the bee space is correct. I liked the SNs for some strange reason and my whole stock is SN, even though I have...