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Sorry to drag this out but as this is a first for me i am hoping it to go as smoothe as possible. So as i said previously no worker brood only drone and some eggs and quite a lot of uncapped honey. As this hive is DB and there are a good number of bees in it plus the Q is not marked and i have...

Thats what i will do then. Thank you.

No worker brood at all just drone brood on 5 frames . Once she is destryed how soon can i introduce a new mated Queen. Thank you

Last week i became suspicious one of my hives (the Q)has started laying drone brood and today i found several frames with drone combe only and what few eggs i could see were singles so i asume she is a drone layer and need to sort this out. I am thinking of buying in a mated Q . so am i right...

Beekeeping Mathematics, Bee Math, Michael Bush I hope it is ok to post this page link on here. I find this condensed and may be helpfull to others on here. Thank you.

An update,just got back from the hives and cheked the swarm and found a last years( white) marked Queen and it was one of mine and eggs .Talk about confusing because this swarm was collected several miles from the apiary.It got more confusing when i inspected the DB hive that i want to unite and...

I have a DB hive with a last years laying Q and laying well but not very full .I also have a large swarm i collected five days ago that is situated in a paynes nuc enlarged .plus extension making it 8 over 8 about 20 foot away and full, I have not seen the q as yet in the swarm ,But i will go...

Everytime i visit my hives the day before i write a list of why i am inspecting and what i am going to do and try to plan various senarioes about what If and how to Fix it if this and that happens . .Im just wasting writing paper cause it all goes out of the window first hive i inspect. This...

This learning curve is getting steeper everyday.LOL Thank you

Thank you for that and yes there was a hive within three foot of its original location that was my reason for moving it you may have solved the problem.The hive close to it does have reduced numbers but it has been very slow this spring so have not been inspecting it as regular as the others...

Steve ,she looked fine just walking around on a frame ,Marked her myself last year and this hive was very productive by my standards. But why no sighn of Cells that is what confuses me. I admit i am a slow learner .thank you

Yesterday i asked a question regarding swarming on a DB and quite rightly Erichalfbee asked if i had shook the frames. Im afraid i did not but just gave them a close inspection due to the frames not exactly stuffed with bees and in a in a DB. I will remember that next time. Anyway today i went...

No i didnt shake the frames but went over them carefully and slowly a couple of times and due to not being a huge ammount of bees on the frames and with it being DB i thought all looked fine.You have given me something to think about now.I will be going through the other hives tomorrow and will...

just checked a DB poly hive with 3 supers on after i did not see any activity on the entrance.While the rest of the hives were all busy. This hive was inspected 4 days previously and was very busy and going wellThey had room and space in the supers and with my limited knowledge no sighn of...

Thank you for commenting,I think i was lucky this time.

Not wishing to drag this up again,but i thought id give an update.Last night i watched a video from Black Mountain Honey how to introduce a mated Q to a Queenless hive ,I think the link was on here also. Anyway it prompted me to have a look at the hive i introduced the Q to yesterday.I didnt...

Boston, of the two capped Q cells i destroyed one and put the other in a nuc along with a cpl of frames of brood etc and moved away The charged cells i did go through them quickly( not the correct way to do it i know) and destroyed what i saw. Unfortunatly i could have missed some. Not a good...

I think i have made ham fisted manipulation in haste. I checked on of my DB colonys today and found quite a lot of cups some charged and two nicely formed Q cells. No sighn of Q or eggs but some lava several days old and the bees were not very happy when i inspected them. So i am asuming some...

Thank you all for replying,just wanted to be sure.Thats another lesson learnt however insignificant it may seem.

Just to elaborate i have run out of horizontally wired and have seen the diagonal ones and was not sure if they are just the same(ish) Thank you.