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I took advantage of the warm temperature to do a quick inspection of my two hives. One colony has survived the winter well - they are continuing to tuck into the fondant but they were also sending workers out to forrage for pollen going on. All the stores in the super has been eaten but there...

As it was a reasonably sunny day today and not too chilly I thought I'd do a quick check on my hive to see whether my bees have survived the winter. The great news was that they have - but two things I found have me very worried. First there is a pile of debris in front of the hive entrance -...

I am worried that my bees will be seriously short of stores for the winter. I have ten fames in a WBC brood chamber; no super. The colony has developed from a nuc I got locally in May. There was plenty of healthy brood developing in June/July. In July, even though the bees had apparently run out...

Hi, I've been a member of the local Association for a year or so and attended a course over the winter, but now I have a colony, or at any rate a nuc which I hope is rapidly building up to become a well established colony. Having now had a few weeks of keeping an eye on them I am beginning to...