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Thank you, taking your advice on board I will leave them and see what happens with the presumed queenless hive.

thank you, I’ll have a think and decide what to do. The swarms I’m 99% sure are both from the hives I set up last year. Both swarms were checked within 48hrs of putting into boxes and they both had white marked queens. They swarmed 2 days apart. Both the original hives now have unmarked queens...

They both are my swarms 😂 They both swarmed on the 13th and 15th of April, one of my swarms was very large and went into the Nuc box and then after a few days into the hive, the second one to swarm was rather small. I thought it was a cast, but after checking it has my white marked queen in, so...

I know its strange!! my hive swarmed 13th April I collected it in a 14x12 Nuc box. I checked it on the Saturday 16th and it was obviously far too large to stay ther, so I put them in a 14x12 full sized hive. After a week they had drawn out the brood box and she’d laid in 3 full frames, so I put...

The situation is this. 1x Hive which was a swarm from one of my other hives a month ago. Brood box fully drawn and has 3 supers on almost full. 14x 12 hive. 1 x Nuc box again 14 x 12 housing aswarm from about a month ago and these need to go into a hive. The hive at inspection yesterday has...

I'm quite tempted to have a go at queen rearing. One of my Queens is a absolute beauty in temperament, laying and honey production. Something to have a read up on and look into further.

Just don't run out to the shop and buy a box of matches, some contributors on here could instantaneously combust.

If you have 1 hive then you need a second. 2 is no different to 1 in terms of work etc. BUT if you have 2 hives and something goes totally wrong with one, you have the other as a insurance policy, to swap frames of brood over if you make one accidentally hopelessly queen less. With 2 you can...

I was inspecting my colonies with my daughter on Sunday. A neighbour hung over the wall right next to the hives and started waving his arms about asking if they were dangerous. I said for me in my suit no, for you waving your arms around maybe.

Not far off a mirror image as to what happened to me. Inspected for stores and removed fondant mid March. Weather changed and went cold and wet, with hard frosts most nights. I had to go to a couple of football stadiums in London, planned inspection for the Friday after it warmed up on the...

I look through the supers and remove what frames I’m extracting into another super frame and use a clearer board to take the bees away from just the super or supers I’m extracting. Got 2 hives so not too much of a faff.

I bought my Nuc home, took them into the back garden, let them settle down a bit while I sorted the hives and within a hour I had them transferred into the blood box. Really simple and took just a few minutes, and thats with my girl helping as well.

James, My problem with Oz Armour is exactly the same. I'm I think 2XL due to being 6ft 3 but with a 32" waist and not much better off in the chest department, I'm dragging about 4 meter square of fabric around with me!

I use a Oz Armour suit, no issue with sweating.... gloves are a problem. Marigolds are ok but even after one inspection my hands are wet and sweaty. My Dad always said I had hands like wet fish.

The 23rd March inspection was looking at stores but pulled all frames out for a quick look at stores and room. It's now 11 / 12 days since the marked queens swarmed, I took down all but one QC in both Hives. I wanted to know if I have a queen or need to start and make a plan B.

I checked fondant etc 23rd march. stores ok so took the fondant away. Inspected as the weather allowed and nothing to worry about, concerned about future space but all I had was frames of undrawn foundation. Decided to wait until the next inspection. Then the weather changed, went cold and wet...

Had a weekly inspection. Apiary now consists of; Hive one which swarmed a week or so ago no new eggs, potentially a queen in process of being mated. Hive 2 which swarmed 2 days after Hive 1 is in exactly the same state. Marked Queen from one of the Hives in a 14x12 full Hive. 80% drawn out with...

Hoping for a quiet day. Wednesday saw one of my 2 hives swarm, which I caught and transferred into a Nuc then next day into a Hive because of its size. Yesterday I planned to inspect both Hives properly, but in the late morning saw more Bee’s in the sky. Thought it might have been a cast swarm...

mine swarmed today. Shocked is a understatement! Now got them in a Nuc box.

well, wasn’t expecting this when I got home, one of my Hives swarmed. I had a quick peep on 25th March, I didn’t think there was that many Bees to be honest. I’ll inspect both Hives tomorrow as planned!! Shall I put a frame of brood / food from each of my two Hives into the Nuc I’ve brushed the...