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8 frames with brood in the main box. well there was last week anyway. so, they will eat the store in the 1/2 brood and then use it for brood space...? Hmm, clearly i shouldnt panic

New beek. I now have 3 hives, one bought at auction and two from nucs. Put them on our small farm and then suffered the anxst of choosing a bad site where they few right across my daughters all-weather horse arena, result horse stung, me stung, .... bees have to move, and after just a week! Bee...

reassuring...

Had the seasonal bee insp visit on monday, very informative and my hives that I have had for a week passed with flying colours. Phew! But.. the spot where I had placed them was not so good a the flight path took them across a footpath and a horse all weather surface. Daughters horse got stung...

thanks, that sounds a good tip.

Went to help a friend open up his hives today. Hadnt been opened for just over two weeks as hive two was aggresive and gave him several stings, he only having had a t shirt under his suit. Hive 2 today was quiet and a lot more friendly, with 1.5 brood, about 4 frames of sealed brood in the b/box...

I echo the above. Installed my hive, my first one after completing a local course. Within a day there were many bees to be seen returning with pollen. I changed the floor to a varroa one on day two and gave them some sugar syrup, the listing having described the hive as having low stores. Plan...

Just coming to the end of a course with Gwent Beekeepers association. Mixed group of newbies, some with bees, most thinking of getting them. All benefited greatly. The course was friendly, informal and very informative. The teachers were very patient, very helpful and not at all pretentious or...

yes I emailed them all, i'm going to be disappointed to miss bridget's but the auction sounds really interesting

thats really useful thanks now as to my original question. The hives with bees in, do they normally expect immediate relocation, or do you wait for the absent bees to return?

is the list on email?

New to the world of bees... have just seen that there is a bee equipment auction near me at Hay on Wye It describes lots as including several hundred hives, all inspected by RBI. Does this mean they are going to have bees in them? If so, what is expected at these type of events regarding...