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Next step: Clip the queen if you haven't already done so. (occasionally bees do something weird)

Is that the wall (how high up?) or the ground? If it's a wall, it's more likely to be a mason bee.

TylBee, Bees like this are no fun. They are pain in a field miles away but definitely not good in a domestic situation. You will need a plan to replace the queen (they will almost certainly get worse as the colony gets bigger). You need to find an out-apiary site too as you may need to move them...

So am I. By the time treatment occurs, the excluder is off in any case as the supers will be gone. And no veil? I thought bees could get through an excluder! (Admittedly not quite so quickly as without). If the device works for some people, that's fine by me. However I am not yet convinced.

Solitary - individual entrances.

Three choices. The third is to seal them in. If a pest control company sends someone round, they must seal the entrance in any case as otherwise the poison they use could be taken to other bees' nests by robbers after the remaining honey. Remember donnaleck, bees are not there to cause you harm...

Unless it's too cold for the OSR to yield - as I have now! :(

"My experiment is to try repeat what I did last year". Every season is different so don't expect to do the same. Your queens are older/different. The weather is different, the forage will be different. Part of the fun of this craft is learning how to deal with these changes and anticipating...

Yes they will reduce the depth of the comb for brood-rearing. Manleys are 44 mm so a bit too deep for brood - so you would have a fat arc of stores above. The answer could be to go to double brood and then you have a clean split between boxes for brood or boxes for honey. Or just mark up you...

If there is a queen in the hive, there's a fair chance that without smoke being used when the hive is opened up, the queen is on the introduced brood frame - where she 'should' be. If there is a concern that the hive is being robbed, it can be closed up in the evening. In the following morning...

Alternative is to put the brood box above the supers and queen excluder, with the queen above. (Give her a frame of brood from the super which will get bees up and keep her warm). This is essentially a Bailey comb exchange although you are not exchanging - just getting the bees to the brood box...

If SHB arrives, I am pretty sure we will know very soon afterwards so B+'s statement is spot on. As well as limited imports and check on those that do come in, and beekeepers' observations, there are also sentinel apiaries around the country (mine is one, as I am near a port) which government...

"hope they calm down when the weather warms up". This not an option. My suggestion:- It will be 2 months before the bees improve in any case with a new queen, so leaving them for a couple of weeks in hope is not sensible in my view as you are delaying the pain. Firstly bleed off the flyers to...

It could take a while for the bees to work down to a brood box underneath the two supers. I would be inclined to do exactly as Etton has suggested. With a brood frame and the queen upstairs, the bees will prepare a brood-nest for the queen to lay in so after a week you should see eggs in the top...

Well done for getting the colony through winter. A relief I bet. A double brood box poly nuc will have 12 frames in it, I assume. No problem to move them into a standard brood box now when it's a pleasant day and the bees are flying. If there is brood in both boxes, which is possible, then...

The Waitrose honey is the only one that's close to OK.

What studies have been done to prove/disprove that feeding syrup up to the honey flow does not result in syrup in the honey? And to answer the question, this year colonies for me are smaller than usual - with a poor late summer/autumn 2020 - and little pollen coming into the hives so far this...

What a load of cobblers that was!

Following on from my post, if you want the keep the bad queen and a frame of brood and a enough bees to cover, then that will be manageable enough and will grow over the next month or two enough so that you can then squash the queen and put a queencell in it later - an instant nuc - without...

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