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Site is 4 miles away. i was just concerned about lack of forage, other than oil seed rape.

This will be my first year to target oil seed rape. Site sorted with local farmer Rape is just starting to break into flower. Not much else for bees in the vicinity. When would you suggest I take bees to new site considering drop in near futire temperatures?

Did another inspection - no eggs or queen. Rang a local experieced beekeeper.He thinks too late to rear new queen with much chance of success. He is doing some combining with some of his colonies and has offered to give me a surplus queen.So went back and removed queen cells and all signs of...

Thanks RAB for advice - not dealt with queen cells before so how do you recognise ripening stage?

Decided to do another inspection today to look for eggs. If none are found it looks like options are 1/ Leave to sort itself out - could I end up with an unmated drone laying queen? 2/Remove all but one queen cell & then as 1/ above 3/Obtain mated queen & introduce her 4/Combine with friends...

Last inspection was a week ago . There must have been queen cups then which I failed to spot. Both colonies are very stong and are adjacent about 4 feet apart.Brood has been on 8 inner frames. All frames now have approx third of capped honey on both sides.

Queen was reared this year. Has been laying well and has built up from nucleus into a stong brood with normal drone ratio. Could not see any eggs today, only open young larvae & sealed brood.

Finished 4week apiguard treatment today. Could not find queen but 3 sealed queen cells on face of frame & 1 on bottom of frame. New this year having compleeted course on beekeeping. Initial advice is to wait reinspect in 7 days. Supersedure is suggested but may be too late for new queen to mate...