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It is unclear which box you are saying you found QCs in 3 weeks later, and also which box "also swarmed just after inspection." If you are talking about the box with the QC, the answer is that the bees will have made lots of additional emergency queen cells when you separated them off away from...

Ahh - that's interesting - I found a pile of bee bits in the apiary, under some foliage, recently and wondered what had happened. Makes sense.

All the objections raised above, plus one other. Varroa populations in a hive double (roughly) every month or so. All it would take would be for a few colonies to be untreated (or a few mites to survive the treatment) and it would be all over the UK again in a couple of years. From it's first...

You sure it was the old queen?

We can't answer this because we don't know what you have done as swarm prevention and control They didn't like the home you gave them, and left. Or the queen was actually from the hive you found her under (she had just undershot the entrance on returning from a mating flight) and she simply...

As already said, queen cups (cups with no larva/royal jelly in) can be ignored, though I tend to tear than down as part of checking whether they have anything in. One of the things which leads beginners down the garden path more than any other is trying to second guess whether queen cells are...

Unless you enjoy sitting on a motorway I assume you are being ironical ...

Maybe Though it didn't stop a swarm the other day coming straight out of one hive and into another 4 stands along. Maybe some swarms are just more decisive than others.

Don't have much choice really, given my lack of ability to fly :oops:

Crazy if they can't make their mind up where to go. 3 bait hives plus numerous chimneys etc all in easy reach!

What do people reckon? What's the longest you have seen a swarm bivouac for (apart from those which have been locked in place by rain etc)

It's a bit of an overwhelming situation isn't it. As an amateur, my method these days is never to try and find the queen in situ, with thousands of flying bees around my head and on the comb. There are lots of methods, but as soon as I see charged queen cells I immediately: 1) Move the whole...

Well, I didn't know what a bacterial spore really was, so I googled it. This video puts it quite simply and well Bacterial Spore Formation Animation Video - YouTube

Given what the 30c means, it's physically impossible that it made any difference at all ;) But then, the power of the mind ....

Thanks. I was mightily relieved. Even more so when I just endoscoped them and found them all tucked up in the bait hive.

Went into a hive 7 days after last inspection. A week ago there were cups, but I pulled down all the ones I saw and there were no eggs in anyway. Today, found multiple capped queen cells along the bottom of frames, where I am always diligent to check. Swore loudly, but hive very busy, so...

No, eleven brood frames is fine, that's the point of this thread "Complete" means that you have enough frames to fill the boxes that the frames are provided with. Anything less is misleading marketing. So 10 brood frames doesn't qualify as complete, and Bee Equipment shouldn't be using the term...

It's usually just something in the weather that triggers all the hives to go "right, time for orientation flights, everyone who hasn't already done one get out there" Can't believe it was the mower if it was 40m away. My neighbour has a ride on that he uses just 10m away through a hedge, and...

Chocolate Mining Bee - Natural History Society of Northumbria (nhsn.org.uk)

One of these? Polystyrene Nucleus Box with Frames and Foundation (beekeeping.co.uk) They are top bee space so you shouldn't have this issue. There's a 5mm+ gap between the top of the frames and the top of the brood box, right? Scrape any brace comb off the top of the frames and the underside...