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an unmarked queen is very difficult to find,and once you have found her she is very agile and difficult to keep track of,the cage holds her in the same place while you mark her,you don't have to handle her at all,

I decided to mark my new queen today,what a task!!we eventually found her,but she managed to get off the frame we found her on,we found her again,and put the queen cage over her,we only took our eyes off her for a couple of seconds and when we looked again the queen cage was empty,the mesh on...

mine have started to come home covered in powder,but the weather has just turned bad with heavy showers and a drop in temperature hindering them.

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I used to get quite a few wasps,but they seem to have declined quite a bit,maybe their colony was somewhere they have grown to be a niusance and they have been dealt with.

that gives me an idea for some old neoprene waders I was just gonna chuck in the bin,they have sprung a couple of leaks and they are useless,they might be ok for warmer weather when water is not as available to the bees,I'm sure I could knock something up.

she must have,there was a queen cell on the frame she was on when I split the hive on friday,and I forgot to remove it,till saturday she must have fallen off then.

I articialy swarmed my colony last friday,and all seems ok,on an evening I usually have a look(just stand watching the bees flying in and out of the hives)for 10 minutes or so,but tonight when I looked something didn't look right with the existing colony,there were a lot of bees under the om...

I only put 2 frames in the new hive(1 with the queen on and 1 with plenty of pollen)I thought about leaving the new colony a few days so I knew which definately had larvae in before I destroyed any

:DI have just done another inspection tonight and the queen was still there,there were 7 more queen cells with royal jelly and I could see grubs in some of them,I have done an A S and marked the frames with cells on with a drawing pin,I have reduced the hive entance to the old hive with the Q...

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these look good

I would say the colony is strong,(they seem to be bulging out of the entance after dark)they're in one brood box and there is quite a bit of honey in it as well,I have got 2 supers on,the first I put on a 3 weeks ago I left it for a week without the queen exluder and they 3/4 filled it,with some...

sounds like what was happening to me earlier today,there were probably a hundred (its hard to tell really)bees flying round the hive not going anywhere,we went to the supermarket for our weekly shop and when we came back it was back to normal

I just did an inspection and I removed 6 queen cells,4 had a white sticky fluid in them(I take to be royal jelly)there were grubs in at least 2,I have been advised that it is too late in the year to split the hive.

I have just added my first album of my first swarm collection to my profile.