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I am not an Amazon! I am in my 60's and small and slight although fairly fit. I was actually trying to find out whether, if I can get my bees just into a brood box and off brood and a half, whether this would do them any harm going into the winter. I don't want to be moving 2 brood boxes about...

Thanks for the advice, although I only intended putting the QE on temporarily until any brood in the super had hatched. If there were any stores in the super, I would then put it under the brood box (nadir?) for the bees to take it into the brood box. I would then remove the empty super. I have...

Hi. I am in my second season of beekeeping. I have found this year much more difficult and have had a lot of problems which I won't go into detail about now. My hived swarm was building up really quickly and my mentor advised me to add a super as brood and a half to give them more room. I was...

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Hi I have 2 hives in my garden since I carried out a split. My mentor advised me to turn the parent hive so that the entrances of the hives were not facing the same way. The hives are over 3 ft apart. It would make inspections easier if I could turn the parent hive back the way it was which...

Hi this is my first winter of beekeeping and my main concern was that they survive. However, on a mild dry day a few weeks ago I opened my hive to put Apivar strips in. I had been planning to use oxalic acid but as we were not having cold weather to stop the queen from laying I followed the...

Hi I am new to beekeeping this year. I had a little honey in 5 frames which I extracted. Other beekeepers advised me to put the frames on top of the hive once extracted as the bees would clean out any honey residue. However, I was worried that this would attract wasps so I put a couple of frames...

Hi I am planning to start keeping bees next year. I bought a second hand National hive which has been painted white. I have bought a stand and an additional super (yet to be assembled) and was planning to paint these white too. I bought some Zinsser Allcoat exterior satin paint which is...