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Left them there. They capped them though and queens emerged as saw a hole in the end.

It’s still the original queen from the swarm when it arrived. Despite the bees supercedure attempts she is still there. I know as I marked her straight away and it’s still the same one. There is 4-6 queen cells each time on the face of the comb hence why I’m assuming these are supercedure cells.

I captured a swarm in June. Marked the queen and after a couple of weeks they had drawn out 6 frames of 14x12 with bias. Since then (July) I have moved them to a full hive and they have tried to supercedure 3 times. I checked at the weekend and there is 6 supercedure cells so this makes it the...

To fit a 12oz jar.

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Thanks all for the feedback. I like the notion that they were retaliating for me removing there honey 🤣💦. Unbeknown to me my mum who has recently taken up bee keeping she went into her hive a day after I had my experience and got stung a couple of times as they were so aggressive or maybe...

Has anyone else found colonies are really aggressive a few hours before a thunderstorm? It’s the only theory I can come up with. Last week I lifted off a couple of supers on my 3 colonies using no smoke and had no issues. Was checking to see if they had cleaned up my extracted supers which...

Price reduced to £150

I caught a swarm in my poly nuc on Sunday and they straight away started making that noise. When I opened the nuc up a couple of hours after they had drawn an inch or 2 of comb off the roof.

Bees expanding nicely now and in need of moving into a full size hive urgently so now reduced to £150 without nuc and £220 with nuc. Believed to be a cast swarm from one of my hives. They drew all 6 frames of wax out in a week with no feeding and queen has now laid up 4/5 frames of brood with...

I’ve thought about the same situation. If I take our brood frames with uncapped stores does the nectar that’s not yet honey not go off / ferment ?

Inspected my three hives at the weekend (saw the queen in one of them ) and all good. Eggs present in all of them and no queen cells so looks like this swarm came from somewhere else. Glad I isolated them now and will check up on them next week or 2. Video below is how they were getting on after...

A few weeks ago retrieved my first swarm from a tree. Yesterday another first for me I caught a swarm in my swarm trap. Put up a 14x12 nuc in a April in my garden about 25m away from my hives and this arrived yesterday. Will find out if it’s from one of my colonies at the weekend when I do my...

Thanks all.

Hi. Update on the swarm I collected 9th may. Unable to inspect till now but went in yesterday to have a look. 4 out of 6 frames in nuc drawn out. 2 with sealed worker brood and other 2 with stores. 3 off capped queen cells. No eggs or larvae. No sign of queen. Bees now down to covering 2/3...

Not sure I’d go that far 🤣 but it was certainly a memorable experience and got the adrenalin pumping.

Not fed them as the weather was good and a good flow on. Will let you know how they are when I inspect them.

On my second year of beekeeping and caught this swarm in a 14x12 nuc a couple of weeks ago. Suspect this was a virgin queen from my own apiary about 50m away as I saw a queen hatch same day (one I must have missed when knocking down queen cells as part of artificial split) so suspect there...

Hi. On my second year of bee keeping and so far it looks like I’m in danger of having honey to extract this year - last year was a right off. So far got a couple of supers filled and almost capped. I’ve got 3off 14x12 hives and only plan to have 3 hives in future due to garden size constraints...

Hi Went into my two hives yesterday to add a super on as they were looking to be building up well. . Took off my fondant cosy (insulated box with feeder hole) which has a space for feeding and the bees had produced wild comb with worker brood In that area. Cut it all out and now have wax with...