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Yep. I'm rapidly converting to the "if in doubt leave them alone" school of thought.

I've seen a worker from that hive manoeuvring a lump of Apiguard out of the entrance a few days ago - it was a sphere about 3mm diameter which the bee was struggling with. I picked it up later and it took three days to get the smell from under my fingernails! Good, thanks for the answers -...

For the last two weeks one of my two WBC hives has been extremely active with hundreds of bees in and out and around the front of the hive at all times of day and all day long, and a couple of times I thought they might be about to swarm, or maybe start a mating flight, but nothing has happened...

"You should look in the brood once a week."

I had to move one of my hives about thirty feet early this summer (change of use of area) and used a tip from a US forum. After I'd closed and moved the hive I cut a very twiggy, leafy branch from one of my trees and leaned it against the front of the hive, more or less completely obscuring it...