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Thank you. We have found that out since. The beek just kept saying the Q was so prolific she'd have the brood box filled in no time, but assuming due to the chalk brood issue, she hasn't.

Wooden brood box. We don't even have two full frames of stores, as the Q has started strongly again, so there are some capped and uncapped stores around the brood. Super is still on, as I said, the beek we bought from said to put it on straightaway! Made sense to take it off to me as it wasn't...

Sorry, my bad. Yes, the super is on.

Congleton, Cheshire. It was put on when the temp was in the 20s.

We purchased a five frame nuc, within a hive, in June this year. The beek advised us to put a super on straight away, as the Q was quite prolific, and expect to have to do a split shortly afterwards. He was very experienced, and so we followed his advice. I have done an online course, read lots...

We've had an awful year for wasps here in Cheshire. We usually have quite a high number of them, but they were three inches deep in the traps inside 48 hours. I hate killing them but they were just constantly buzzing around the hive. I took advice to put a trap directly under the hive and that...