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I checked them this Sunday just gone and still no sign of any eggs :( and quite a few dead bees outside the hive... Maybe due to the stormy weather we've just had... Will keep you updated and hope you're queen is going well AngeJ!!

Very helpful!! After two weeks away I inspected my hive yesterday and was sure my queen had gone for exactly the same reasons - no fresh eggs, just capped brood. I've been panicking but after reading this will give them a couple more weeks and see what's happening. I am also a newbie so reading...

Oh dear, that's not a good start! The place I got them from said to put the whole hive together so just followed their advice... what a pickle!! What shouold I do?

Thank you for all of your help!! In answer to some of your questions... •I found the queen cell at near the bottom of one of the honey frames in the super box - sticking right out rather than running lengthways along the frame •My initial box of bees came with 6 pretty full brood frames and...

I am a new beekeeper and have had my hive set up from a Nuc for about a month. On one of my early inspections the queen managed to get into my honey supers – I found her up there 3 days after and managed to move her back into the brood box under the queen excluder. I left the hive to settle for...