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Please could you pm me thanks.

I'm feeding due to low stores, not happy with one of my sites

Hi, please pm me if you have a spair queen thanks

Should of kept on top of it, and kept cutting it in to shape, and put an odd frame of foundation in between the foundation less ones. Done this a few times good luck!

Just been looking at doing the same thing, make up Nucs to over winter some queens, better than the import crap that I've been having the last few years, I've got shut of the lot there all local breed or local sourced. And I must say beekeeping has become enjoyable. Never again will I use...

I've never paid rent, it's normally the other way round farms pay you as the bees increase there yield.

Prime : first swarm that leaves with the mated queen casts are normally unmated and smaller

Hi pm me I'll send you my number I can come look

South staff's bit of a drive to kent, my work shop/ honey house is looking good costing an arm and a leg but I've got 100 hives built and waiting, bees are coming slow, got more sites than I need, but I've planned the jump and keeping me fingers crossed and working hard.

Biggles do you think you'll have your out lay back by the end of the year?? as I'm a very long way off as this year I've jumped in the deep end, built an new work shop, made loads hives and collected and cut as much as I can I'm just short on the bee front at the moment.

What's the numbers looking like biggles ? Still swarm collecting or just breeding good stock?

Pargyle has summed it up, planning and safety. !!! Go have a look at access, and take photos. Report back I can up load photos, so you have an idea of how its done. And I'm sure you will get sum help on here as a few of us have done them in the past. And are you handy at brick laying ...

Yes I've done about 20 odd firstly what's the chimney like if its capped then they will be on the under side of the chimney or in the pot. You will need to remove comb and put into frames then drive the bees from the chimney with smoke in to a hive with cut out comb. I do them off cat ladders...

If you have to kill your own bees then your not a beekeeper what's so hard about removing the capped drones a queen excluder, smoke,and a new queen .I would move bka!

Yes finders keepers, and good luck to the new beek I say!

The temper of the swarm will change after you let them settle, had one few years back was really nasty until they had a good feed and a home. Ended up getting a massive honey crop off them as well :) if not just re queen.

good luck!! remember to duck tape round your wrists and ankles :)

your best bet will be taking the tiles off, unless you want the house a mess, I've done loads of cut outs always best way. unless you have the spare cash for the plaster to come fix the ceiling after.

I would leave the hive for a few hours and then put the new queen in a cage with a bit of candy blocking the end of the cage, sum times I use icing sugar if there really angry. Just dust the bees by the time there clean the queen is normaly out and about.

Get another colony any way, and then drop a frame of eggs/brood in the old colony, you will soon see if your queen less.