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I've done some searching and think queens from different colonies wouldn't ever coexist after combination, even when combining multiple queenright colonies. So it is a late summer/autumn supersedure, most likely after the combining. I now think that rather than getting along swimmingly, the...

I have a colony with two queens. Common enough with a supersedure situation or virgin queens, but I'm wondering if anyone has ever found that two laying queens will be allowed to co-exist for a (relatively) long time after combining colonies? I combined multiple colonies into one back in late...

Does your heather have spiky leaves? Here is our native equivalent in flower now and called the common heath...it's only sparse, so no honey from it. Very spiky little thing!

Do you know when the day of the event was? It was very windy there in that area on the 4th July ...see their facebook video on that day describing and briefly showing wind disturbance to some of their little nucs that day ..."bits blown off all over the place". Apparently they have over 700 of...

Is there a good nectar flow there at the moment?

It sounds like there has been a nest in this chimney before - perhaps a few times?

Here is a photo of the holes in a top bar of a frame caused by the wax moth larvae.

What I find is the larvae grow and live in the top groove of the frames where the bees can't get at them. often chewing holes in the top bar. Inspections reveal nothing obvious by way of webbing etc., yet they are there, munching away happily in that groove. Occasionally a big grub will...

I haven't tried it, but something like this perhaps? https://www.latiendadelapicultor.com/en/hardware-for-beehives/metal-corner-protector-for-beehives.html

Was there much sugar syrup available to them in the minis? Were the six put in the hives ok?

I tried to answer this question before- sorry BugsinABox but it may have been taken the wrong way. I can see it hasn't been answered yet. No, not causing concern for me. Your colony has chalkbrood and I am in no doubt about that. The foulbrood diseases of EFB and AFB do not cause blackened...

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Any rain there at the moment or forecast? Is there still moisture in the ground? It looks an excellent climate there at this time of year although with the heat things might dry out too much perhaps. Average highs around 27 c and about mid sixties of rain?

Yes! :D I think one colony accepting bees from another is something to do with an evolutionary process. That particular colony went on to become a very good colony (with all the extra bees I guess ) and produced an excellent quantity of honey that year. It's a bit like how you can sometimes...

Robber bees dart around an entrance with their back legs hanging out....even I can pick them, so I don't think they would see them as robber bees. The 'cap in hand' demeanour of the shaken out bees seems to have a bit to do with it. A bit like when two dogs meet and one doesn't want to get...

I did that once with a large laying worker colony and they all went cap in had to the neighbouring large colony with absolutely no fighting whatsoever and no sloping boards. It was warm and in the middle of a good flow however.

Extreme and stationary high pressure systems right over us down here have seen winter temps. very low, although today in Liawenee it got to a remarkable 12c. The overnight low there was minus10, the night before, -13, Thursday -14, Wednesday -13, Tuesday -11 and Monday -6. Many of the lakes...

But it does. You have shown and refer to Figure 5 in the report. That is for the first three flying days only. Figure 6, on the other hand, shows the graph of the nuptial flight duration in relation to the temperature when queens left their nuc. Scroll further down the report. It is clear...

Yep, the gap in the mortar issue :eek:

As I posted earlier I witnessed it first hand some years ago. I can’t be responsible for what others do not see. Given the right conditions with wind speed and so on, mating can occur at 14 degrees. It’s not a moot point.