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Tape the whole thing up and walk down the ladder. Or pass it to your wife or friend. 10yrs wow put your bait hives near apiarys of other beekeepers prefibly the ones who don't check them enough or comercial

Everyone gets told that and they most likely end up losing a swarm. Not your fault you did what you was told

And where do you get off telling me I talk absolute drivel? Who do you think you are? Don't talk to me like that understand? You wouldn't talk to me like that to my face. Start to understand how to respect people and talk to them respectfully. That's no way to talk to people. Who died and made...

Let me guess you was told to check once a week and you missed it?

I wouldnt give your bees a drink of thymol it's summer 😂

Checked my brood boxes I use as supers and they're drawn and nearly full so it's nearly time to spin them out and use them for splits and get some more blanks in them. I'll feed the honey back to them to keep the queen's laying and the bees drawing

Im not sure bridge's fish and flys have anything to do with my posts or beekeeping you seem confused

Errr I had one hive in the heat of a flow that had already been treated according to advice. It was a large colony mind you. And he also congratulated me on the state of my operations. I don't kill drone brood by the way in fact I encourage it I have frames of it in each hive. And nothing I've...

I can spot a bad varroa infestation with an inspection yes can't you? Look at your bees. One of the first things my bee inspector pointed out to me

maybe then you would like to see my hives? All are perfectly healthy and all but splits on three broods?

Don't you think a new beekeeper should learn how to inspect a hive without killing a queen? Should be able to do it with ease? Much better a new beekeeper stress a few bees than to let the colony die when it swarms from a varroa infestation.

What a load of rubbish

I'm saying as much as possible but ideally once every three days and thats my opinion. Maybe not the large body of opinion but its mine. Until you can read one and that's certainly not in the first two years unless they have access to numerous hives of someone else's

In my opinion new beekeepers should inspect hives as often as possible. A minimum of once every three days

a hive will swarm when a Q cell has been capped. Worker bees can draw cups in a day and queens lay constantly. How long to cap that cell? Now presume you missed one on your inspection and now tell me one week inspections are a good idea for a new beekeeper

Why did you move the hive?

It's not that complicated to work out

Check every frame for emerged queen cells you'll get a pretty good idea. I couldn't keep up just reading through it. But I could tell you what happened with a single inspection

Probably not the best place to ask on a forum. The best thing to do is get out there with beekeepers. All you will get on here is a lot of opinions most regergitated out of date information from books that's a decade old. Nothing from real thinking beekeepers who actually trial old stuff and...

Where do I start? collected a swarm that was successful. checkerboarded several hives for swarm preparations, checkerboarded hives just because of the sheer amount of nectar coming in. Checked some splits that were queenless for a few weeks, some are now laying queen right and I put some eggs in...