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Once you have a few drawn combs you can interlace foundationless frames between drawn comb. If you leave too much space you end up with brace comb and they glue all the frames together, wax bulges into gaps in the adjecent comb and you squash bees and mush honey all over the place getting them...

Humbrol model paint and the stalk of a peice of grass

Thinking of making some underfloor entrances this year before the wasps build up strength. Any ideas on where to get the mesh from? Are these still the best options?

Nope! I need the nuc box that the laying workers are occupying Shook them all out into the nettles a way away from the original site of the nuc box. Put the two frames of brood in with some new nurse bees and shook some more bees in from the hive, then put back the frames of nectar that were in...

Right, early start this morning. Two frames with big slabs of capped brood into a new broodbox over a queen excluder with the poor white dot queen in the cage between them. I have moved the old nuc so they will bleed away to beg into two other hives. This evening I will add the two frames and...

Yet more eggs, but looks like a laying worker as multiple eggs in the cell. Decided to put a couple of frames of capped brood above a QX with the caged queen and let them draw up nurse bees. `it will help knock back the nuc too.

Yes, my thoughts exactly. Push in cage is the way to go. I am going to cut my losses. I have put the queen excluder on and shook the whole box out, but just seemed to sift out drones! I plan to use the nuc box again, but will just shake all the bees out and let them join the other hives and...

This is intensely frustrating! Went and had another look, two more queen cups and one with an egg in. I had a look at the other comb and there was possibly a single egg in one of the cells, but most are filling with nectar now. No larvae at all. Bees swarming over the queen cage, I daren't let...

Might try to shake the whole nuc through a queen excluder to see if there is a queen, failing that I think that another frame of emerging brood and a push in cage......or.....just pop the tab and see what happens :eek:

I waited for the queens to arrive and made up the splits the same day. Queen straight into the split (in her cage) Two others have gone fine, I am flumoxed by where the eggs are coming from. If there is a queen in the hive, why not other eggs in the frames. If not where has the egg come from.

I made a split last Saturday to introduce a new queen to. Two frames of emerging brood and a frame of nectar, with some fondant in the feeder of the nuc. I went in three days later and took down a handful of queen cells (impatient I know! I should have left them longer) A couple of days later...

I think that the benefit of this forum is that we can all learn from others mistakes and successes in equal measure. My mistakes probably outnumber the successes so far, but I try not to repeat them. I don't need to repeat mistakes to be fair, my bees find new ways to teach me how little I know...

And that's when he's only got as far as taking the dummy board out o_O

I have done this too! Only needs one sting and the buggers home in on that. I squished a bee between my leg and the top of a wellie and all hell broke loose. I had 20 or 30 stings embedded in the black rubber of the wellies and quite a few in my ankles. Closed them up quickly and beat a hasty...

It's a honey bee with pollen in its legbasket. Possibly blackthorn pollen

That's taking knowledge exchange too far Jenks!

Inadvertently! I had left two supers on a hive and the queen and bees moved up. They still have the brood box below, so I am hoping that they will move back down later! They seem happy enough!

Can you feed the honey back to the bees?

Make sure that the hive is level

It's interesting seeing how het up people get. I met a professional bee keeper in Spain who claimed that Ley lines were really important in siting his hives, his most productive being sited at the base of an electricity pylon. There's lots of science we don't fully understand and absence of...