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Thanks for the responses folks. They are very helpful. The suggested issues so far are EFB, parasitic mite syndrome/DWV from varroa and chilled brood due to hive absconding. We are currently contacting the local associations and where we did a course to see if we can get some advice. For the...

We had a look at the hive tonight and it doesn't look healthy :-( Many of the cells are very dark in color. Many cells contain black shriveled up larvae. We could not find the queen even though we found her when we first moved the Nuc into the Hive two and a half weeks ago. We could not find...

Thanks. OK, with this information, I think we have a plan. I will check the brood box again and see if we were premature in adding the Super. If we were premature in adding the Super, I will remove it along with the queen excluder for now. Since we do not have a Super in place then, we can use...

Thanks for the reply, jenkinsbrynmair. We added the Super as we were following the advice that if >75% of the previous box space was used (in this case, the brood box), we should add another? We have apiguard sachets as we bought them to have them when we got set up first a month ago. However...

Hi, We received our first Nuc two weeks ago and they were homed into the brood box of our new national hive. The bees seem to be doing great. When we inspected them a week ago, they created comb and honey on the remaining frames of the ten in the broodbox. We placed a super with another 10...