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Hi everyone. They've swarmed again this year... The family was very strong with brood on 8 frames and a good pattern. Plenty of stores and just over the last couple of days they'd started to occupy the supers with lots of bees... Today they swarmed. I've been checking them frame by frame every...

Thanks so much for your quick replies. That's why I love this web site! So many experts and always so quick to respond. Thank you once again :)

Good morning all, Lots of pollen being brought in over the last week or so. I've noticed some bees with bright yellow dots on their backs. Can you please take a look at the centre of the photo attached and tell me if this is pollen or something else? Only one in 50 or so have this, all other on...

Hello everyone. Do bees sometimes store pollen above the Queen excluder? Thanks

Yes that does sound easier but I just didn't want to disrupt the honey harvesting. I would like to avoid a second year of no honey 😂

Thanks for the reply. That was my initial thought too however I didn't want to disrupt the honey storage so demarree seemed like a good compromise. I would always look for queen cells first and the do the demarree si hopefully prevent swarming, not disrupt the honey storage and end up with two...

Yes of course. Don't worry. Thanks for the idea. I'll look into it and read up on it before acting. It seems to makes sense though. Split the hive without splitting the honey stores.

That's a great idea! Something new to read up on...looking forward to it. Thanks!.

Hi Boston (and others). So I cleaned it up and put oiled parchment paper down yesterday at 3pm. I'll take a look same time tomorrow, do a count and post some pictures. Thanks again

Good morning from Italy. So after my first season of beekeeping with 1 hive(!) in looking to split this family and just wanted your views... - the colony did not get off to a good start. Got them in April last year and May 13th swarmed so lost half plus weeks waiting for the new Queen to mate...

😂😂. Just me being lazy I guess

No particular reason except that it's raining all week here and they predict a little sunshine in Saturday. Might do it tomorrow though if there's a break in the weather.

Yes that's what I thought... Will be doing as you suggest as soon as we get dune better weather. It's cold again this week. Thanks for your reply

Hi from Italy everyone. Finally winter is ending. Had a quick look at the bottom board after the winter. Before cleaning out I thought I would take the attached pictures... I treated towards the end of November work sublimated ossalic (although I couldn't see any varroa visually but then this is...

Thanks for your responses. That exactly what it is. Sorry for the panic but I've had them swarm before in may. 😊

Hello. This is the third time this has happened over the last month. In the same period I have inspected 4 times and found zero queen cells of any kind. They calm down again after about 20 minutes! Please see videos attached. Any ideas what this could be? Thanks

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Hi everyone. During my recent weekly inspections I've noticed a significant amount of uncapped honey in in the brood chamber that they are not capping. It's definetely honey rather than nectar judging by its density and the weather has been very hot over the last couple of months but they...

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They were queenless for a few weeks. Catching up now...