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Good morning, I have just received 3 mated queens for queenless colonies. The problem is that these colonies have been queenless for a while and there's no brood cells. Will the resident worker bees welcome this intervention and feed the cells that the new queen lays into? Or will they kill her...

Good luck to you in your endeavours to keep bees. It's a steep leaning process, but most rewarding when you and the bees get it right. If you're keen to get started buy a couple of colonies and see how you get on. There'll always be swarms to have later in the season, but they aren't without...

Found these guys on Thursday afternoon inside an eke when I was taking syrup feeders off and giving the bees fondant patties. A treat to find so many ladybirds holed up for the winter. . Though not needed for feeding a fondant patty, the eke and its spotted inhabitants got put back under the...