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Thank you very much for that. I'll put on the Apivar since I've already bought it. You're always very generous with help. much appreciated. J

The usual white board under the mesh floor. checked about once a week. cleaned off and put back in. I know what varroa look like as I had a lot last year. Thanks.

Thanks. No I didn't have any treatment on. ( For some odd reason I haven't detected ANY varroa on any of my five hives- another mystery)

Hi all, Yesterday I looked in the brood box of a not very strong colony, expecting just continued egg laying. Found no eggs or larvae but two decent sealed Q cells and a couple of what seem to be tiny sealed Q cells. (23 August five frames had some brood/eggs at various stages). So Q has...

6-8 weeks ago I caught a swarm in a bait hive. I didn't notice their arrival. I left them in that box. When I looked inside after a couple of weeks there was no brood/eggs. I put in some brood frames and left them. The same each time I looked over the last few weeks. No evidence of a queen...

Perhaps you've already taken action. One year we had two wasp nests in the. ground, not far from our beehives. After dark I poured a large saucepan of boiling water down each. Seemed to do the job.

Hi, Thank you so much. Maybe I'm not mad after all.

Hello all, I want to unite a queenright colony + its supers (BB1 & Supers1) with a queenless colony + its supers (BB2 & Supers2). Reading BBKA Guide to Beekeeping (2nd ed.) I'm a bit mystified. The book would suggest that the order from the bottom would be: BB1; newspaper+ QX; BB2...

Pargyle. I take your point completely. I was inaccurate in my first posting. Lesson learned. "Bad tempered" was probably too strong. Thanks again.

Folks, It's distressing me a bit that, as a result of my question, the thread had become so bad tempered. On the actual question, I've re-read my notes, and (while I'll never know for sure) the notes do not say I moved Q cells. In fact, because I had the step-by-step notes printed out, I think...

Thank you very much for that. In answer to your questions - I look in the hive every seven days. I try to see the Q, otherwise to see small larvae as evidence that she was there recently. I look for Q cells and if there are any I take action which differs depending on whether I find the Q or...

Thanks. Yes, I've since found her in the moved hive.

Thank you very much for the thorough reply. Yes, I should have been more explicit. In answer to your questions: The cells I found were charged, not sealed. I moved the hive 50m so that the foragers would return to the old site and go into my new Blue hive. One hive would have a Q and the other...

Hi all, Could anyone suggest what may have happened here. 11 May found Q cells. Can't find Q so I Moved hive away 50m. Put new hive on original spot. This is my Blue hive now. Transferred a frame with Q cells from old hive to Blue hive and filled up hive with foundation etc. 18 May removed...

Watched about a dozen of my bees fly into the poly tunnel where they spent time pollinating my apricot tree. Lovely.

Thank you everybody for replying. As a result I will change my approach next year. But for now I think I'll put on Apivar. Are there any reasons for not doing this? Thanks.

Put Apiguard on 3 hives on 3 September. Same time gave fondant, using super as an eke. Another Apiguard after 2 weeks. Through Oct I measured Varroa drop. Unused fondant removed 22 Oct. Continues to be 10-12 varroa per day on all three hives. There are plenty of bees in each and brood boxes are...

Apiguard Sep 2019 Apiguard Aug/Sep 2020 OA Dec 2020 (planned)

Michael, thank you. That's very generous. I'll try that. Usually I just rely on the presence of eggs or very small larvae. Incidentally, I've found a great free app for my iPhone called Magnifying Glass with Light or Mag.light. It really does magnify and since I got it I can see eggs with it...