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If it knocks them down then it shouldnt be a problem. It's only if they get to fly back to the hive and tell their chums where to go robbing that there is a problem!

I have been through a colony three times, signs of eggs and drone brood, loads of drones. It was the half of an Artificial Swarm with the queen cells I had thought that I had laying workers so was going to shake them out and put some open brood in to see whether I could retrieve the situation...

One from the hedge near my hives. No QC in my hives and the bees are more yellow, so dont think that they are mine.

The bees have clearly sensed my impatience and are having none of it! Still clustered around the queen's cage.

Thanks Finny et al. I am impatient, but the bees and caged queen have been in the nuc for two nights and a day, so getting on for 36 hours, no eggs in the nuc, just emerging brood. The queen was pretty quiet this morning - I thought that she had died at first - only one attendant bee, but she...

It is a concentrated sugar solution and will kill any bacteria that get into it, by essentially sucking all of the water out of the bacteria through it's cell membrane. It's why the bees concentrate the nectar into honey.

Yes, she has been sealed in the nuc with the bees on the frame of emerging brood for 24 hours.

I have bought a couple of new queens. To install them, I have put one in a mating nuc with a handful of bees. The other I have put into a nuc with a single frame of emerging brood and the covering bees. I put her in with the bees 24 hours ago and closed them up. The queen is in a cage on...

I tried earlier this month and total failure 0 from 19

I extracted some on Saturday afternoon before a trip down to cornwall. Extracted and blended with a quarter of a bucket of seed honey from last year. I filled a few jars and brought them down for family. The jars I brought down had set by Monday night. I left the rest of the honey at home to...

I would expect that if you can stop them swarming, you should be good for a crop this year. That first jar of honey is a real treat!

If only, the issue here is the lack of emergence. Thanks for the advice fellas. I have not kept the temperature right and humidity too low. I have a few roller cages so should have stuffed them back in the hive. I will know better next time. And thank you Beefriendly, I will not trip over my...

Any help appreciated, I found some queen cells and did an AS, tore down the queencells and put some some grafted cups in to replace the queencells I destroyed. My first attempt at grafting failed completely 0 from 19 !! I then put in another frame of eggs (about 14 days ago) and they drew 3...

Went along yesterday and had a look at the live bees. Very little on offer yesterday....three nucs and a broodbox full of bees. One of the Nuc's was Queenless with no eggs spotted by the bee inspector Two other nuc's with chalk brood but laying queens The queenless nuc went for £150 the other...

Thanks for the tip Eyeman. I will have a ganders now.

Wow, looks like you missed a bullet there.

Just transferred them from the nuc box and installed them in a hive. Five frames pretty full of bees

Possibly! I checked the hives this weekend there were no queen cells in evidence in my hives but I have possibly missed one though.

I have a couple of hives in the garden but came back this afternoon to a mass of bees buzzing around the hedge with a cluster at the top of the hedge. I have shaken the bees into an empty nuc box and put a frame of brood into the box, the rest of the bees have moved into the nuc so I am feeling...

Thanks Finny - I might try this next time