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"However, it may well 'unsettle' the swarm at a time when you are hoping they will put down roots rather than abscond." just do it once they have brood to care for but unsealed.

"There is plenty of science regarding the health benefits of Manuka honey, particularly on wounds. Feel free to research about it and discuss with me." likewise any honey. the thing with manuka is that it was a second class unmarketable crop. some bright person comes up with a scientific...

only KBS for foundation IMHO

ask yourself - why do bees store honey? answer - as an energy bank for use when forage unavailable. your bees needed the food.

by definition a prime swarm should be led by a queen who is laying well and should get on with the job fairly promptly after rehoming. this is obviously a cast. hopefully you don't have a QE left under the brood box. BTW how big was the swarm?

"Always feed a swarm on the 2nd or 3rd day" if it is a swarm of known "clean" origin i.e. your own bees then you are free to feed from outset!

it is well recognised for bees to build supercedure cells after newly mated queen starts laying - HM doesn't necessarily get all pheromoned up for some weeks.

rape - no. anything else - yes. in hive storage is how nature (and the bees) intended after all!!!

here you go.

"Throughput the whole summer they only drew barely 3 frames in the brood box and 5/6 frames in the super (i use national brood and a half)" as per the above - the super obviously not needed AND hampering the colony development. sounds like a nuc size not a full colony.

some mated queens can take a good few weeks to get fully pheromoned up and the bees think they need to supersede.

aside from the cost is not getting them a bad thing?

"It is a new colony so they have yet to draw down the new frames with foundation so it is still a big space to heat." the standard solution to this problem is just to add 1-2 frames of foundation at a time, as needed, dummying down the rest of the brood box - maybe with insulation in the space...

cedar or poly.

if it's more of a tomb than backfilled grave there could well be quite a void below the surface.

she needs a home to return to for post coital ***.

"Is it always like this this time of year ?" most of us wouldn't know since we all buy the seconds in the sales.

you mean everyone doesn't happy a laminated copy for reference? it's all crap anyway (pun intended) - where's the fizzy gravy?

and the great thing about screwfix is you can order whilst sitting eating your friday night fish n chips and then head out to collect later once the crazy pre-BH weekend traffic has died down.

"Not sure the best way to do the cutting," *** saw /drywall saw - £9.99 at screwfix. sorry duplicate post.