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Very simple... First you give a box full on foundations If you a frame of brood or ready comb, give it next wall. A swarm tend to find its place next to wall and the queen is there.

Impossible to know how bees have died. They can try to rob another hive and have met their destiny. A wasp may visit in the hive and it kills over 10 bees.

Molded pollen stores are evident if you leave pollen frame againt the box wall. Moisture condesates near to cold box wall and the pollen catch white mold. Move away the next to wall pollen frame and put a white new comb or foundation frame there. If you winter storehouse is moist, pollen...

I am 77. But we are different. I am giving upp from all beekeeping. My back does not srand 50 kg lifting and diabetes is too difficult. 60 years with bees is clearly enough. I have now 1 colony.

" it is believed that to use of worker larvae produce smaller queens" Me: every worker larvae are fed 3 first days with royal jelly. MIllions of beekeeprs have reared queens on the Globe. Is that the result of all bee knowledge?... rethinking!

Moving a larva is very fast and simple job, much more easier than some fence.

I have reared 20 years queen in swarming cells. I change the larvae from good hives. They are really good queens. The rearer colony accepts 100% larvae into their cups. Then I take the frame with the queen cell and put into a nut. I move the nucs into a forest 2 kilometres away. All workers...

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Propably you have not seen chalk brood. Lucky you pargyle. and most beekeepers have not seen mouldy pollen.

Put such fuel that it does not make much white cloud. That cloud is gasified wood tar. I use rotten dried birch. Grasa, needle, cones are awfull smokestuff.

That is molded pollen. Rub the molden points away Cut away the white stuff and you find pollen from the cell

Better to put into brood box. At least it stinks beehive. Cardbox stinks something else.

It has worked upp to Finland

Put the queen into mating nuc.

You can soak the hive box wall one by one into 10 cm deep liquid and then turn the side. No need to make 150 litre dosage. Langstroth box is 40 litre. Box wall is 4 cm thick. You can sterilize the box with Killit Bang too.

I have reared every year new queens. I have bought mother queens.

In 60 years beekeeping my oldest queen has been 2 productive years. Mostly I have changed every year.

You should now raise a good colony which later ready to cstch a good crop. 2 box hives is not a good honey collector. You should have 6 boxes. If you now split the colony, it starts from zero when you think honey yield. Let the hive grow so big as it does without swarming. Give more space...

Bees like to flye into the box hole where the hive has brood. If put the topmost, bees start to fly into the topmist box. 15 mm hole is big enough. Or you may do another 15 mm hole, if it has traffic jam.

I wonder if I have said that nosema is in all hives. In several hives perhaps but not all. I have seen the precence because brooding is difficult to start in spring. Bees cannot make food juice to larvae. Bees did not eate the pollen patty what I gove to all hives. When I have given a comb of...