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Well done Susan. My family and I are in Antrim in August. Looking forward to seeing Cushendall (where may dad came from), White Park Bay, Giant's Causeway and the Glens.

Veg, you have empathy from me. I was gutted yesterday, but I was chasing mine to mark her. http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11747 Are you going to leave it a week and see what has happened? She has been out before and made it back.

There seems to be two threads mixed into one here; one on the issue of the original poster and one on how replies are made. The second thread makes it difficult to follow the original thread so perhaps these posts should be in their own thread and so people interested in those can view them there?

Susan when you write a reply there is a paper clip above the text box where you type. Click on that and a new window opens. Click browse and browse to where your photo is then click upload. It can take a few minutes so wait until it tells you it is done. Then back to your message and click...

Thanks for the advice. As often is the case the most likely solution is the right solution and not the complicated one I made up. The hive has now been rectified. Below is the photo of the comb. I have left it out for the moment to let the the bees clear up the little bit of stores in it...

Ah so it is only one queen and she has upstairs for the females and downstairs for the drones. I will probably then cut out the will comb, shake the bees back into the box and ill the space with normal frames. Thanks

Hi Peter I am curious to know if your bees are still doing this? One of my colonies started to do this early this week and when I inspected yesterday I found I had a second queen who is a DLQ who had set up a subcolony at the front of the hive...

Some stores, but not much and a lot of empty drawn out comb. Upstairs it is a new queen and that is where the main stores and brood is. The wild comb you can see I think was started by drawing out from the bottom of the frames above since when I tried to remove them they were very difficult to...

Is the nuc your only hive? Your profile states "none". If you have another hive why not reunite the current nuc bees with that using a QE and newspaper? If that colony is strong then the newcommers are unlikely to kill the queen. Then you can put your new bees in the nuc.

Best wishes to you and your wife and I hope all works out OK.

Rockdoc, Thanks, but no lens, just a point and click. A Cannon IXUS 220HS. I took 5 shots and one came out OK. I did chose the camera especially since it will focus down to 3cm

Bee Ginner after asking the forum for advice what is your plan of action? Is it inspect yourself or is it Bee Inspector?

Richard Bees. I would freeze the 2 bits of wild comb as my son is doing research on varroa and he may find it useful. If the DLQ is still in the bottom BB after I move the wild comb out then am I not just doing is moving the problem upstairs? Can a DLQ pass through a QE? She has not been...

Is it not possble that there are a lot of bees living in wood etc that you don't know about that are just as much a problem with disease etc? You just can see the ones next door, but they may be healthy, and the ones you don't know are there are the unhealthy ones.

I checked the hive out a short while ago and my inspection today does not seemed to have altered anything. The ground floor front flat colony are hanging around in the entrance whilst still allowing the first floor residents entry. Even the super that is on is getting filled up. I thinks this...

Thank you all for the replies. I shall post an update in a week. She will either be back or the hive will be in the process of being combined with another small colony.

Huntsman, you are welcome.

Thanks Dr S. As a non-scientist it is good to start to understand the terms. Huntsman, All I can say is; when my son and I were doing the inspection we lifted the frame out and this pupa was being pulled across the frame. We may well have just caught the moment when it was being pulled out to...