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I wonder if you can help? I have four hives, two of which are the collected swarms of the others and all four appear to have a queen - on inspection today, eggs visible in two and young larva in the others. However, the last couple of visits, the bees have been extremely angry and have readily...

Last week, a swarm from one of my colonies was caught and has been put into a Langstroth with new foundation and a queen excluder at the bottom to make sure she doesn't get out. They have a feeder with some 1:1 syrup in an empty super to get them going with drawing out the foundation. My...

Well, it must have been a case of me putting in regular sized frames into a deep-frame langstroth hive. However, the fact is that I now have a brood box with frames that have wild comb constructed on the bottom of the frames, including brood, and I don't know what to do with it.....! How do I...

Can you advise me how I should go about getting a nuc box for developing nucleus when I have Langstroth hives and the only nuc boxes I see available are based on nationals? The frames would not be compatible when they were transferred to a hive, surely?

I thought my hive was taking a lot of syrup and it was only when I investigated further today that I found that they have taken advantage of the space beneath the feeder (Ashforth type) to build new comb to store it.......is this normal? I was under the impression that they would simply not take...