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Eggs are best, very young larvae at a push.

:)

Todays meeting showed one hive with a couple of QC's. a lot of bees, time running short so did a Dave Cushman AS Two cells one almost sealed on one frame. Two with brood mostly sealed with some stores. Two frames with stores. A fair number of flying bees and house bees. Moved to another...

Have you joined SSBK Cannockcarrbees? Lots of knowledgeable keepers there.

lmao.

But are they worker or drone? Have you got yourself a DLW?

Sat watching my bees coming and going, and a Great Tit sitting on the hive which every now and again, drops to the paved area in front of the hives, picking up and eating a few bees on walkabout.

One of mine has bees that have taken to following me, never did that last year. (New queen last july)

Well, we have an island. But with import/export we have varroa too.

Have you finished the bathroom yet Bri.;)

Can you fix a box/nuc over the hole with a few frames and a bee escape so they can get out the roof, but not back into it? You might lose the queen, but get the bees and maybe unite.

ps Take out two frames and leave a nice space so she can't jump back to the frame you just looked at.

If you want to find HM, just look for her and ignore anything else. Start at the outside and work your way in in roughly a circular motion.

Try old fashioned washing soda, the same stuff you use to sterilise your hive tools.

One nuke in the van, the bigger one in store at home. :( Now I'll carry them both.

Nah, sods law is when you have a nice clean odour free one and they sting you anyway.

Just back from a call. Huge swarm, easy access, straight into a Nuk. Stood watching them spiral down and start working. Then they all streamed out again and disappeared. :(

If she is a virgin she will have to leave, and hopefully make it back, at sometime. If you have any brood to spare, the other bees are less likely to leave.

Have you any brood you can put with them?

Trust in God, 25 mins is just down the road.