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Have you inspected it at all in the last 2 years? Have you inspected it now? What did you see? I would be tempted to put a new brood box on the bottom with fresh combs and a new floor, find the queen and put her in it with one or two of the old combs, put queen excluder on it. Then put back...

I am sorry for being a pedant here, but this (quote) is you saying that antibiotics effect your bees behaviour. It is very unlikely and hopefully doesn't dissuade people from taking their prescription medicine for fear of an unwanted result. Personally I think instead of blaming something...

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Doesn't sound like propolis, sounds like brace comb between the nadir frames and the brood frames. Maybe smoke them up into the top box, or new box and carefully pull a bit of cheese wire between the nadir and the brood box. Then do your clean up / sorting out.

I have been on doxycycline as well last week, my girls were as placid as ever. Amoxicillin this week and still lovelly. I don't think there is any correlation here. Maybe your bees don't like you anymore?

April fools surely?

No need to feed any of mine, I left them a super each in September, and it was enough to see them through.

Thanks guys, I think you are probably right. They have been on this site for three years now, but the land owner hadn't seen this beehaviour beefore... Still, I m starting inspections this weekend, so I will soon know if anything strange is happening!

Had a call from my out apiary at 1300hrs, bees clustered on the front of the hive estimated at a couple of hundred. Clear sunny day, 14 degrees but gusty. Of course when I turn up there is nothing to see but business as usual... Quick check around and no sign of a swarm, plus land owner has...

Or she 'felt' the urge to lay a couple of drones. And the biggest cells were near the edge.. Sometimes you gotta scratch that itch!

Ditto. I assume you haven't strapped your hives together and a deer has scratched itself against the hive? But how long could it have been like this?

Engineering bees not to swarm? What could possibly go wrong?

Me too. If you need a contract, you already have a problem. Do the decent thing, and let them know worst case scenarios! If they are keen after that... You got a good site!

No losses, laying queens and BIAS in both colonies. Didn't feed all winter and it paid off lots of space for brood and still a couple of frames of stores. The relief is palpable!!

Agreements don't need considerations (£1 min) Contracts do.

If you need a contract for just a hive in a garden, I would avoid it like the plague. It shows you what sort of experience you will have. If you are driving the need for a contract, I would ask why? To protect them or you? Or is it to just outline your expected behaviour (access etc)?

POLLEN!!! And lots of it!!! Yippee!!!

Good source of pollen, my girls like horse chestnut.

Thank goodness Beek season starts soon.... Can't take much more of this!

Not agreeing or disagreeing with the original post, however I think extreme colds encourage a brood break which would effect the varroa brood cycle.