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Thanks for that I have now done a split. regards

Hello, doing my inspection today one hive that has a super on it, on checking the brood box there is good brood pattern, and grubs. There were on the very top of two frames two sealed queen cells on one and two sealed and one not yet sealed cells on the other. Last inspected seven days ago. The...

Thanks for the replies, I have a moss filled water container near the hives and some bees use it but not in the numbers that go to the leaking barrel! Thanks again

Hi, temp about 9 degrees today, I have four hives in an annexe garden at the bottom of my garden. The last few days there has been 50+ bees at a leaky water barrel constantly, today they are still there flying back to hives but at my back door where I was washing the paving there are 100+ bees...

Thanks for your replies, will take advice on board.

Didnt answer all the questions, 1st August there was a small patch of sealed brood no eggs or larvae.

Just checked my notes, the last time I saw the queen was 17 July and there were three frames of BIAS, no queen cells, and on checking the front of the hive for the next few weeks there was plenty of pollen being brought in so I didn't open the brood box again until the 1st August.

Sorry should have added that two of us went through the frames today and could not see a queen, new or old.

Hello, on inspection three weeks ago I discover an open queen cell, believing that this may be a superceedure that had taken place I left it until last weekend to check if the queen had mated and laying eggs, I did see eggs, looked like one per cell but very sporadically spread around. On...

Thanks for your thoughts and answers.

Hello, I have completed my first twelve months of bee keeping, I took three hives through the winter. My question is about one hive in particular, it was was fine about 5weeks ago when I inspected it, since then I have only been able to get in the brood box once because of the amount of bees...

Thanks for the answer, I had expected to find a queen after the test frames and had some other bee keepers look as well, the colony was getting smaller and smaller and that is why I united, just seems odd that after uniting, the eggs and larvae have appeared, could the queen below get through...

Hello, I have had one of my hives that have had some queen issues, over the past two months there thave been no eggs no grubs and no more sightings of a queen. I did two test frames and no queen cells were made, up until last week there were still no eggs etc. I united the colony with my next...