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Hopefully so. Will queens have stopped laying now anyway? Probably not much point opening it up again to check for eggs until spring time.

Yeah, will let nature take it course and pick up again in the spring. There should be enough bees there to overwinter and could introduce a brood fame early in spring which they could make a new queen with if hopelessly queenless at that stage.

Queen cups. Did an inspection 2 weeks ago on 19th Oct, it was cool and as soon as I seen some eggs I just closed it back up again, thinking maybe foolishly that it was too late in season for queen cells. Did a full inspection the week before on 12th Oct and didn't note any queen cells.

Just seeking some advice. A very strong and healthy hive of mine has just decided to murder its queen. Found her dead outside the hive today. Did an inspection, lots of bees, stores capped brood and uncapped brood. Didn't see any eggs but did see early stage larvae, so looks like she last layed...

I have similar situation. 1 strong hive robbing 1 nuc and 1 hive. Anyway, how's this for a plan. Wait till late, close them up for the next day (it's to rain tomorrow anyway). Replace original location with box with abit of food. In theory robbing bees will rob out the food, think that's it...

Lesson learnt

So I think I've made a rookie error. I have 2 hives and 2 nucs. 1 hive is very strong and has a super on filling with honey. The other hive isn't as strong and no super. In my wisdom I decided 2 weeks ago to put in apivar strips into the weaker hive and 2 nucs, but leave the strong hive alone...

My shopping list from the helpful guys on here... OA £6.50 https://the-beekeeping-shop.co.uk/product/oxalic-acid/ Vaporizer £29 https://www.fruugo.co.uk/beehive-vaporizer-12v-bee-vaporizer-oxalic-acid-vaporizer-varroa-treatment-m68e/p-150169557-317237305?language=en PPE mask £21...

Eric (Dani), Eric and Enrico. Got it 👌😄 Hi all 👋👋

Lol ah, hi Dani 👋

So, Apivar, abit rubbish? Is it OAV all the way in terms of preventing / treating varroa?

Hi Brenda, good advice 👍

Hi Eric 👋

No. Isn't there a smell off EFB as well? There isn't any smell here.

Yes that's the sunlight

Thanks for the helpful replies everyone. Really appreciate it.

Thanks Eric. We had put in an apivar into both hives middle of August. Didn't suspect varroa for that reason. The hive was queenless for a good while and I had thought lack of nurse bees reason for dry larvae, coupled with suspected poor queen mating during bad weather the problem has just...

Thanks for heads up Enrico. Any budget ones you would recommend?

Thanks Emily. Bit frightening when EFB mentioned but it is what it is and may as well get sorted, learn from it and move on. Looks like that colony is a goner whatever it is.

No it's maybe 6-7 frames of bees coverage.