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Jeff heils you ! Congratuations! Your day is saved.

Hives are different from the beginning after winter, spring build up and the size of summer. Queens' laying abilities vary. When the queen lays, those eggs become foragers 6 weeks later. You make all kind of operations : how you use excluders, how much you give boxes to lay, how you support...

60 years. I have reared 90% out of my queens. What means complicating things. Jeff, you are a great talent to use in typical intelligent British poking. You think it is funny? You put most stupid things to another's mouth and them you start to enjoy about your own stupidity. Where all fun...

I have 15 different ways. Too long story.

What kind of poison your cells have? Why the poison has not killed the bees?

It is very rare, that queens lay multiple eggs. According my 60 years beekeeping experience it is extremely rare. One in 10 years. I have had few in 60 years. They have a violated antenna or violated front leg or black spot in the abdomen. You see yourself, how good layer your queen is. I...

Did you have normal worker brood in the hive?

Jep. A good queen is the key to the good and pleasant beekeeping. It is not allowed to say in this forum, that you can buy a new ready queen if they have queen problem. Yeah. Some people may think. Swarm queens, emercency queens, 5 y old queen, and what ever bugs are good enough for them...

Inpecting the colony in bad weather and in low temperature may cause that brood may catch cold or it burst chakbrood. Not a good idea.

There are at least 50 reasons, why the hive is angry, and it goes over. But I know only one habit, how to keep the colony calm: buy a new mated queen!

Catch and reliese method.

Buy a mated queen. So simple.

Some kind of neurologist?

We do not have snow in September. Suddenly I remembered, that there are not stupid questions in this forum....

Phsycopathic = who is suffering mental disorder..... just defending its home or what? And you do not have feral bees in Britain, except those derived from last Ice Age in shallow valleys.

You did not succeeded to find chalkbrood immune queens. That was your problem. I read everything about chalkbrood 30 years ago.

Follow that path

Yes, that article handles factors, which causes outbreak of chalkbrood. That does not help. Only which help, is change your apiary's genes. I read those same things 25 years ago. You can go directly to the solution: change the queens. It is same as " what to do when I have angry bees". You...

Why are thinking where spores remain? When you have chalkbrood immune bees, it does no matter,where the spores are . Spores do not affecr bees. And this has nothing to do with hygiene. You may put the queen lay onto badly sick comb and the new larvae will be healthy . Brood pattern will be...