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I have vetch in my very wild garden Bumble bees always love it but this is the first year I’ve seen my honey bees on it

Is the drone brood just in the super directly above the brood box? Would it make sense to take the queen excluder and put it above that first super? Just an idea I’m only a learner and I’m following the rise hive method so not using an excluder anyway myself

congratulations How exciting!

On a similar subject a swarm took up residence last Tuesday in a hive with old comb I counted a mite drop over 24 hours of 2 Is it a good idea to treat quickly before brood is capped since all the mites will be phoretic? I have Apiguard I don’t have anything else I’m a newbie and this is what I...

I’m pretty new too I have the advantage that they moved into a brood box already of old comb So they are hived in my garden I don’t even need to move them Also the hawthorn has just started to flower I’m sure someone else in here will have better advice than anything I could give I hope your...

This is essentially what happened to me what I thought was a swarm was in fact just lots of scouts I moved a couple of boxes of old comb out of the garage and hid the rest At night fall they all left and I was disappointed Yesterday I was ready all suggestions on this thread Things I didn’t...

Well the garage was full of bees but not a swarm as such Centred around the stack of boxes that I’ve moved outside Sorry probably not explaining very well

Interesting day some bees (not from either of my two rather weak hives Have started to swarm to our garage where I had 3 boxes of old comb I’ve been trying to move from the commercial boxes I inherited to rose hive boxes But the bees haven’t clustered yet I moved the boxes out of the garage and...

wow what a day1!

Thanks for sharing your lovely pictures. Its so interesting to see which bees and other pollinators visit the garden and when, it makes an interesting study. I have quite a big garden in the countryside with two hives but quite often the honeybees are away somewhere perhaps on the blackthorn...

It looks like mostly grass . The bees do like some of those wild flowers though Sunflowers of course but they won't flower for a bit. Oxeye daisy and knapweed probably some of the others too

That’s exciting Not too many trees where I am but I’m busy planting them Partly for shelter Now I’m just impatient for them to mature and flower