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put in 12 charged apidea's to keep cool until thurs when will let em loose!!

are there any drones yet or even drone comb in the hives? as you'll need some to get the queens mated.

if there is any, appears to be less sown around here from previous years

use a crown board with a hole in it for feeding at times, you can soon bloke it up to stop the bees coming through, saves you having 2 types of boards

have you got drone brood or drones?

you can change your floors without too much disturbance to the bees, yes too early to check brood, let em get on with it, pollen coming in leave well alone, keep calm, dont panic mr mannering!!

asap! not many around yet, you may have to wait a few weeks or pay a premium

air bubbles created by creaming, just eat it yourself sounds fine to me, rare for osr to be fermenting, if fermenting it would have pushed the lids off

sorry for my last response, just noticed your location, lucky you

A WHAT!!!!!!! why have they swarmed so early? 2 queens or more, brood box full of brood or stores, its not normal surely as they wouldn't survive in the nature as theres not enough out there for food and pollen and are there enough new bees to build the wax required for a new home?

if you have an eke with the fondant you could always put syrup on top of the fondant, then the bees can choose.

pollen coming in, is the best sign you can expect for at this crap time. leave well alone for a couple of weeks we should all see some improvements!!!

dont worry about inspecting the frames just ensure the bees are near the stores or food source if not sure get some fondant right on top of the cluster and wait until the temp is about 16 or more. nothing else you can do

we built an 8 x 8 room, adequate, 2 stacks of supers = 20 supers, into uncapping tank. into spinner, honey into honey tank, supers when done out of way. got 60 hives going no probs.

last year my apidea's suffered badly from wax moth even when they were full of bees. yet my hives were untouched even in the same apiary.

have you ever thought of inserting kingspan in your hive roofs? insulation properties much improved over bits of carpet

add sugar to it to dry it a little to make it less runny

agree with Enrico, why bother at this time as long as there is stores leave well alone until a little warmer

i leave the feed hole in the centre bar open, seems to work ok with condensation, oh i do have open mesh floors, which may help too

this may help without wondering, i have wooden framed, glass quilts so roof off and i can see without any heat escaping just whats happening in there. The frame is bee space on one side, deeper on the other to take a patie of fondant in the winter so one side is for summer the other side for...