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What a disastrous day, I could use a bit of advice. I have 3 hives: One is on 5 frames with a lovely little brood nest. One has dwindled right down to two frames and has no brood at all. The workers haven't started laying yet. I was going to unite these two together... until I accidentally...

I just went up to top up the feeders and to put some insulation on the hives, and one of them (the swarm I caught in June) is, I'd say, dying. When I got there it was after 4pm, 11 degrees, calm, and damp after a day of rain & drizzle, but not currently raining. The first thing I noticed was...

I split my good hive on 29 April using the artificial swarm method when you can't find the queen - so new hive in old position with 1 frame of eggs & young brood, and 1 of stores (+ syrup in feeder). I checked back in 7 days and knocked down all but 1 QC (they were all sealed, so I chose the...

What do you think of the below picture? Is this enough poo/dysentry to worry about? I went to do my first full inspection of the year today, after briefly going into the hives a couple of weeks ago to check they had room to lay, as they were both quite heavy still. This hive had no sign of the...

In July/ August last year I treated my two hives with ApiLife Var. I'm keen to avoid using harsh pesticides, so I chose that over Apivar. My mentor (and supplier of my bees) was asking me how the mite situation's looking over the winter. I had my floor inserts in for around 3 weeks in Nov/...

This year I'm looking to find an apiary site closer to home (the one I have now is 20 miles away), but I'd also love to find somewhere to grow veg. I've always grown veg wherever I've been, and I miss it so much now I don't have my own garden. My town doesn't have allotments, but I've sent an...

Hi everyone :) Beginner beekeeper here. I'll shortly be setting up my first couple of hives in an out apiary on the east coast, north of Inverness. It's a lovely site in an old overgrown walled garden, but it's right on the coast and will be quite exposed depending on the wind direction. I'm...