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Thanks for all advice, yes I was getting confused between a shake out & a shook swarm. Will shake out this afternoon.

I know I said shook swarm... I meant ‘shake out’

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I checked this hive yesterday and found exactly the same deposits on the varroa board again! No mouse nest or anything else except the frames above are all filled with capped drone brood-see photo ( I’ve posted on a different thread what to do re shook swarm option). There must be a link...

I have the same problem, capped drone cells through out. I thought I had 3 options... Shook swarm Merge with another (weaker) hive Add eggs from another hive I decided to add eggs. I’m thinking maybe I should have done the shook swarm, why is this the main advice on this posting? If I change my...

Title should read... Double super to single brood box

Not sure how I managed it (don’t ask!) I have one strong hive on two supers (no QE). I want to get them into one national BB. My current thinking is on first inspection move all brood frames to one super and with stores on the outside, QE on top then new BB of drawn comb ,with queen (if I can...

I’ll post the answer when I make my first inspection & yes finding my strong magnifying glass is on my todo list.

Yep, good point as I don’t use Vaseline and the boards are quite smooth as recently repainted, so it could be all the old cappings blown into a mound.

In for a week, now thinking it could be a mouse, but no mouse droppings. Suppose will have to wait until can do a hive inspection. Bees very active so if was a mouse hopefully they will scare it off.

and if it’s brood comb how come so much in a pile?

Any ideas on this very fine mound of dark material on the varroa board. I don’t recognise it as normal pollen. No strong smell, little taste and very fine like pollen?

Whilst wanting to be internationalist, on a uk forum i feel it would be helpful if posters indicated early in their post from which country they are posting from ( apart from Finman, whom we all know) . Hope this doesn’t sound like little Englander, but I have to keep check to see where the...

... 1 measure fondant to one of water.... presume by weight not volume?

Yippee 🐓🐓🐓

PS: have a look at Tim Rowe's flexible method of building big colonies using brood boxes (at 3mins) and his book.... He says he puts his oldest comb ‘at the top of the stack’ (with no QE) wouldn’t it be best to put it at the bottom so it can be removed when empty?

Not beekeeping, but I imagine many beekeepers keep hens. Do we have any idea of the road map for chickens coming out of bird flu lockdown?

How do most prevent winters remaining syrup getting into the honey? On first inspection I could remove all ‘stores’ but that leaves them with no food, and if placing a super above the BB there is risk of them moving the ‘stores’ upwards.