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yes the queen was marked red so I was gonna have to change anyway,fingers crossed the new queen be mated,cheers

Its not the second hive that I'm concerned about really,it has a lot of brood in all stages,its the first one with the new queen.

yes she is,we found her in the brood box

did my first inspections today,in the first hive,there wasn't a lot of brood and it was patchy,there were eggs,but there were a few sealed poor quality queen cells and open queen cell that looked a better one,I did eventually find the new queen but not the old,there were plenty of bees and 8...

I just built a beebox,so hoping they like it

other members of my assosiation usually seel for about £110 ish but only to other members,just looking in the BBKA news a company selling 2011 6 frame nucs for £170 including beepod.

how much should we ask for a 5 frame nuc?I've seen some companies selling them for £175

thats a good point,I'll keep you posted.

tommorow is going to be warm enough for my first inspection,will it be ok to move the queen back into the brood box(if she's in the super) and put the queen excluder back on?,is there still a chance the temperature could still drop low enough to make them cluster again?

I painted the outside of the apiary fence,the temperature dropped to 6 degrees but I could still see the bees flying over my head.

The only chance I get to inspect is friday early evening or the weekend(guess what ?)the temperature is set to fall again come friday,bloody marvelous isn't it?

I took the mouse guards off again,gonna put em back on later

the trees in my garden have buds yet.

I fed some more fondant in both my hives.

the bees in my hives were really busy so I removed the mouse guards,also I made a new roof for one of my hives, with some roof metal from pa**es,I have put the mouse guards back on now.

my bees were really busy today,with little yellow pollen balls on their legs,I just stood watching for about 10 minutes,

my daughter is always there to help,she is very keen and has her own beesuit,she's 11 years old.

other hobbies besides bee keeping I'm also a keen angler,what other hobbies do you have?

other hobbies besides bee keeping I'm also a keen angler,what other hobbies do you have?

18 mm of snow when I got up this morning