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you could try shaking over a queen excluder this might make life a little easier for you. Keep us updated as I am intrigued to see if somehow a queen has appeared. Best of luck

Rule out disease or extensive varroa damage before splashing out on a new queen. Try a shook swarm into a spare brood box with new foundation if you have one and then pop a feeder on top and monitor them closely for the next few weeks if queen is still not performing well then get rid. How was...

but if the guy is saying that the old queen was destroyed and the frames was put in to make an emergency queen from exisiting un capped brood. I agree logic would say that no QC's meant a queen was present but if shes dead then what the hell is going on?

This is going to sound daft but what exactly did yo do with the old queen? Also are you 100% certain that you have no eggs at all because that would probably dictate what you did next. If you have laying workers there would be no point in intoducing a new queen but if there is absolutely no sign...

Does anyone else wack frames into the oven for a bit at about 230 degrees c? This seems to solve propolis and wax in gaps problem, just let the oven cool before opening unles you like a serious pine fresh in your house.

Few questions first where abouts is stoneheven? Do you suffer from a bad back? What strain of bee do you have/are getting?

Didn't work for me last year tried swapping end frames around but they were more interested in going up than out. Worth a try, maybe super up and swap frames.

I have just finished moving my girls into their larger 14x12 quarters and in the few weeks when both brood box and 14x12 brood box were on I noticed some whitish looking brood cappings so dutifully had a little poke and to my horror saw this nasty little larvae trying to make a run for it. On...

* HP morphine is a pain reliver nothing else, adrenaline is a potentially life saving drug. * I re-highlight the point about developing anaphylaxis over many years, I have just bought some kit of someone that had this happen. * Generally speaking most of our hives are probably not next to...

I just found a whole load of the little gits burrying their way accross some sealed brood along wit a whole load of bees with deformed wing virus- not pleased.

None of you have ever been in the scouts then? What about the motto be prepared! "your realy right driston, epi pens in the wrong hands are just as deadly as annie shock." Have you got any proof of that what so ever! Comments like that make people think twice about doing the right thing, if...

too true I am in the process of putting my lot into a 14x12 brood box.

they may not need it, same as when you feed them for winter they will take as much as they want and then stop. Some people are starting to feed small amounts of weak (1 to 1) syrup this contains vital water that the bees need when rearing brood.

that looks like a reasonable amount of brood on those frames..

The only thing I would say to everyone new beek or old beek is to always carry a mobile with you, you may not be able to run for help! I guess finacially the sooner you get stung and find out what reaction you have the better, purely for the fact that if you get an anaphylatic reaction you won't...

sounds like they are a right bunch of obsessive compulsive A holes, in case they hadn't noticed your contributing to the eco system and the preservation of a species what do their cars do? Give them nothing and pray to the god of spikey stingy things that a nest of wasps takes up residence in...

that news is very worrying especially as osr is a real cash crop for farmers and they obviously want maximum amounts of crop to survive. I'm not so worried about super weeds its the super weedkillers that would have to be used on them, surely this alone would have serious repercussions. As for...

do microwave ready meals say that the contents may be hot after heating if not then I wouldn't worry about the honey labels.

get some common sense it appears you have none!!